Leben Quote by Cees Nooteboom Download Open image ““Kummer hat etwas in den Linien deines Gesichts zu suchen, nicht in deiner Erinnerung.”” — Cees Nooteboom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Leben
“Erinnern, das heißt, eines Geschehens so ehrlich und rein zu gedenken, daß es zu einem Teil des eigenen Innern wird. Das stellt große Anforderungen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“De liefde? Die bedrijf ik vaak maar ik spreek er nooit over. (Mme de Villeparisis in 'De kant van Guermantes'.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Kaffe av skålen, et forsvarlig smørogbrød med snedkeren, ingen unatur og kunster, det var akkurat som et lite fotfæste for hende her i denne… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus -… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other. — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end. — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“...a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“All right, she thought I was a funny little geezer, but my charred Phaethon had impressed her, I was very obviously available, and she… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is. — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Doch es gibt Schiffe, die an absurderen Orten gestrandet sind. Ein Leben kann leicht in irgendeinem Gesicht stranden.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Wie rau der Morgen war. So weiß, so kühl gegen das sanfte Violett der Nacht; so harsch und bloß nach den reich gekleideten Träumen.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Es gibt zwei Arten sein Leben zu leben: entweder so, als wäre nichts ein Wunder, oder so, als wäre alles eines. Ich glaube an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image