Christa Wolf > Quotes

“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
― Christa Wolf, Kassandra

“Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.”
― Christa Wolf, Lesen und Schreiben: Neue Sammlung : Essays, Aufsätze, Reden (Sammlung Luchterhand ; 295)

“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

“You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love...”
― Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T.

“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or other, splits at the joints?”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

“She is sensitive. She does not see the world as it is. She’s a bit up in the clouds. She cannot fit in.”
― Christa Wolf, Cassandra

“كلّ واحد يُعاقَب عبر حواسه الأشدّ إيلاماً”
― Christa Wolf, Leibhaftig

“A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?”
― Christa Wolf, Medea

“I had gone back to being myself. But my self did not exist,”
― Christa Wolf, Cassandra

“Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

“What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers.”
― Christa Wolf, Patterns of Childhood

“من أراد الحياة عليه أن يناضل إذن ، ومن يتكاسل عن النضال في عالم الصراع الأبدي لا يستحق الحياة”
― Christa Wolf, هذا الجسد

“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside of me.”
― Christa Wolf

“كنت استلذ بشيء من التشفي في هذه اللحظة ، حين تسقط فيها الأقنعة ، يسقط الزيف ، ولا تبقى إلا الحقيقة العارية ، إذن هذا هو الواقع”
― Christa Wolf, هذا الجسد

“الحقيقة تأتي بأكثف حالاتها عندما لا نستطيع الإيمان بها إطلاقا”
― Christa Wolf, هذا الجسد

“الألم الذي يعانيه الإنسان من الخيبة معيار للأمل الذي كان يخبئه في قلبه”
― Christa Wolf, هذا الجسد

“Wann - wenn nicht jetzt Wann soll man leben wenn nicht in der Zeit die einem gegeben ist”
― Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T.

“أما الآن فليس هناك لا عصور قديمة ولا ما قبل التاريخ، لا الزمن الماضي السعيد، ولا الزمن الآني المريح، لا وقت جديد، لا فترة اختبارات ولا مجريات آنية. غرق كل وقتي في انعدام الوقت، يضيع وقتي مثل اللاوقت”
― Christa Wolf, Leibhaftig

“I did not yet know that not to feel is never a step forward, scarcely a relief.”
― Christa Wolf, Cassandra

“...no lie is too obvious for the people to believe if it accommodates their secret wish to believe it.”
― Christa Wolf, Medea

“I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.”
― Christa Wolf, Medea

“Wir können, was wir sehen, noch nicht glauben. Was wir schon glauben, nicht aussprechen.”
― Christa Wolf, Voraussetzungen einer Erzählung: Kassandra: Frankfurter Poetik-Vorlesungen

“لقد تجاوزت المحنة ويفترض أن يختفي احساسي بالمصيبة لكنه يكبر ، ينمو وينمو حتى أنتفخ به تمامًا”
― Christa Wolf, هذا الجسد

“Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

“I did not like the thing in me which he had been able to seduce.”
― Christa Wolf, Cassandra

“Writing means making things large.”
― Christa Wolf

“Das Ungenügen mit sich selbst ist der eigentliche Stachel.”
― Christa Wolf, Kein Ort. Nirgends. / Der Schatten eines Traumes. / Karoline von Günderrode - ein Entwurf.

“حتى الخوف يصل متأخرًا مثل كل شيء آخر”
― Christa Wolf, هذا الجسد

“Per il dolore, la felicità, l'amore non ci sono segni. E questo mi sembra di rara infelicità.”
― Christa Wolf, Cassandra

“لكل شيء ثمنه كما يقال ، وثمن راحة ضمير اللامبالي هو الملل المضني”
― Christa Wolf, هذا الجسد