Living is despairing, and the dead they rot away.
~ Herta Müller
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die.
~ Franz Kafka
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If you don’t have the right things, you improvise, and the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they’re what you have.
~ Herta Müller
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Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent humility.
~ Franz Kafka
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I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.
~ Herta Müller
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Robert McCrum
Globish: How English Became the World’s Language
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How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you’re hungry. If you can’t think of anything else.
~ Herta Müller
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Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you’re so impossibly close is unbearable.
~ Herta Müller
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Boredom is fear’s patience. Fear doesn’t want to exaggerate.
~ Herta Müller
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, “Who are we?”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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