Herta Muller Quotes
Collection of top 35 famous quotes about Herta Muller
Herta Muller Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Herta Muller quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Every shift is a work of art.
— Herta Muller
Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples.
— Herta Muller
I never wanted to be a writer.
— Herta Muller
Then you go on talking, about something you never actually mention. And your forehead and mouth are as far apart as they can be.
— Herta Muller
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
— Herta Muller
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
— Herta Muller
Hunger is an object.
— Herta Muller
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?
— Herta Muller
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
— Herta Muller
Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face.
— Herta Muller
Who can take a single step with his head?
— Herta Muller
No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched.
— Herta Muller
Hunger is not an object.
— Herta Muller
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
— Herta Muller
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
— Herta Muller
Sand can be any shade of yellow, from peroxide blond to canary, or even with a tinge of pink. Yellow sand is tender. — Herta Muller
Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?
— Herta Muller
Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity.
— Herta Muller
I've always had just enough sense to spare others, but never enough to save myself from misfortune.
— Herta Muller
If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
— Herta Muller
If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
— Herta Muller
Silence is also a form of speaking.
— Herta Muller
Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.
— Herta Muller
