Quote by Hermann Broch Download Open image ““...in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.”” — Hermann Broch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.” — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Not to fall was too hard, too hard; and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“To fall down is never fatal. Find the force within to rise up.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
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“As his flesh touched my spirit, the feeling of falling turned into a feeling of flying. I was soaring through time toward him.” — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any further. He tried to take… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.” — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness had justified… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a world that… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“WAS THERE STILL SOMETHING MURMURING? WAS IT still the kind murmuring of Plotius, protecting and kind and strong? oh, Plotius, oh, that it might… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“it is always he, unfortunate wretch, who assumes the rôle of executioner in the process of value-disintegration, and on the day when the trumpets… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Driven by that extraordinary oppression which falls on every human being when, childhood over, he begins to divine that he is fated to go… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
