5 Quotes by Gottfried Benn

Marriage is an institution for the paralysis of the sexual instinct.

My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.

Es gibt nur zwei verbale Tendenzen: die mathematischen Lehrsätze und das Wort als Kunst. Alles andere ist Geschäftssprache, Bierbestellung.

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!