Christa Wolf

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you…

— Christa Wolf

I forget very fast and want to record thus simply impress.

— Christa Wolf

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

— Christa Wolf

“I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.”

— Christa Wolf

To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play…

— Christa Wolf

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used…

— Christa Wolf

“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered…

— Christa Wolf

Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner…

— Christa Wolf

“Wir können, was wir sehen, noch nicht glauben. Was wir schon glauben, nicht aussprechen.”

— Christa Wolf

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and…

— Christa Wolf

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

— Christa Wolf

“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken…

— Christa Wolf

Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths…

— Christa Wolf

The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

— Christa Wolf

When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

— Christa Wolf

You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people.…

— Christa Wolf

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line…

— Christa Wolf

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

— Christa Wolf

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

— Christa Wolf

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

— Christa Wolf

What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of…

— Christa Wolf