Dress Quote by Gunter Grass

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of…

— Gunter Grass

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

— Gunter Grass

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come…

— Gunter Grass

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its…

— Gunter Grass

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

— Gunter Grass

“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside…

— Gunter Grass

There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.

— Gunter Grass

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing…

— Gunter Grass

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

— Gunter Grass

What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and…

— Gunter Grass

Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with…

— Gunter Grass

“They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It…

— Günter Grass