24 Quotes by Frank Wedekind

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

I didn’t ask to be born, and I don’t owe God anything.

I was a baby when I came into the world – otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

If I ever have children I will let them grow up like the weeds in our flower garden. Nobody worries about them and they grow so high and thick-while the roses in the beds grow poorer and poorer every summer.

Half happy. We wander among Mayflowers, among the lonely paths in the woods. We hover over gatherings of people, over the scene of accidents, gardens, festivals. We cower in chimneys of dwelling places and behind the bed curtains. Give me your hand. We don’t associate with each other, but we see and hear everything that is going on in the world. We know that everything is stupidity, everything that men do and contend for, and we laugh at it.