51 Quotes by Christa Wolf

Quella fresca domenica d’aprile in cui lei arrivò, Manfred mostrò alla sua futura moglie l’abitazione dei suoi genitori.- La bara della mia vita: suddivisa in bara-soggiorno, bara-sala da pranzo, bara-camera da letto e bara-cucina.- Perché? - chiese Rita. Per conto suo, era intimidita da quella strada fuori mano e signorile, da quella villa antica, da quelle stanze pesanti e buie.- Perché qui non è mai accaduto nulla di vivo, - disse lui. - A memoria mia, mai.

Ihr überhebt euch über alles und alle, das verstellt euch den Blick für das, was wirklich ist, auch dafür, wie ihr wirklich seid.

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

The past is not dead – it isn’t even past.

Much later I realized that a person’s attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing – it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

Between killing and dying there’s a third way: live.

When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.