Herta Muller Quotes

18 quotes in 309 categories

• Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,
• Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say…
• In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
• I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually…
• My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much…
• Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".
• Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the…
• Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
• I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only…
• I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not…
• When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
• Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped…
• If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
• To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
• The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures,…
• If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
• In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during…
• I never wanted to be a writer.

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