42 Quotes by Ernst Toller

My head was in a whirl, and I was trembling with excitement, surrendered to the passion of the moment like a gambler, like a hunter.

My hands shook and my heart pounded wildly. The air was filled with a sudden high-pitched whine, and a brown cloud of dust dimmed my field of vision.

But before my transfer came through I fell ill. Heart and stomach both broke down, and I was sent back to hospital in Strassburg.

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.