Quote by Herta Müller Download Open image ““Sometimes things acquire a tenderness, a monstrous tenderness we don’t expect from them.”” — Herta Müller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Don’t dare fancy you’ll be the man to teach me the pleasures of tenderness.” Tenderness was a rat whose neck she wrung with her… — Cecilia Grant Copy Share Image
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“A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.” — Mia P Copy Share Image
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.” — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and loves you?” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“And I’m different without you. You’re the only one who thinks you’re never different.” — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“I wanted to work out a trade with things that aren’t alive but aren’t dead either. I wanted to make an emergency exchange, trading… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“I'm drawn outside to the empty yard of the afternoon. The wind tosses thin snow that crackles against my neck. With open hunger the… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“The cabbage white flies through the tailor's cheek. The tailor sinks his head. The cabbage white flies out of the back of the tailor's… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“The reasaon I'm shy of objects is because I like them. I transfer the thoughts that are against me onto them. Then these thoughts… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“The gym instructor was the first to raise his hand. All the other hands flew up after his. While raising their hands, everybody looked… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
