Cate Haste > Quotes

“Alma decided she had to get out of the 'disastrous house' on the Hohe Warte.... Werfel had never found the grandeur of it comfortable and had often escaped elsewhere to write. They decided to rent it out. After packing up 10,000 books and 5,000 sheets of music, their paintings and furniture--'in reality junk for eternity, and baggage during everyday life'--she threw a party...

[citing Alma's diary entry for June 15, 1937]”
― Cate Haste, Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler

“What will become of us?...I only play Bach at the moment because he is the only one who frees me from the prison of my thoughts.' 'God in heaven. One CAN'T live without hope...'

[citing Alma's diary entries for August 31 and September 1, 1938]”
― Cate Haste, Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler

“I was born to be lonely / And loneliness is my destiny, / For I feed off my own thoughts.

[Alma Schindler, Diary entry for May 20, 1899]”
― Cate Haste, Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler

“Alma era una romántica empedernida. Necesitaba sentirse intensamente amada y experimentar el amor con una pasión que encendiera su ser. Pero tan solo inspiraban su amor aquellos que poseían un talento creativo desbordante.”
― Cate Haste, Alma Mahler: Un carácter apasionado