153 Quotes by Gunter Grass

Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery."SHOW YOUR TONGUE

Man mag noch so viel über die beliebte Dreiecksthematik des Theaters schimpfen; zwei Personen alleine auf der Bühne, was sollen sie tun, als sich totdiskutieren oder insgeheim nach dem Dritten sehnen.

Seul ce qui est entièrement perdu demande à être nommé interminablement : il existe une obsession qui consiste à invoquer la chose perdue jusqu'à son retour.

Hoy ya sé que todo nos espía, que nada pasa inadvertido y que aun el papal pintado de las paredes tiene mejor memoria que los hombres. Y no es el buen Dios el que lo ve todo. No, una silla de cocina, una percha, ceniceros a medio llenar o la imagen de una mujer llamada Niobe bastan para proporcionar de todo acto un testimonio imperecedero.

- ¿Cómo te llamas? - La pregunta era inevitable. Tenía que venir. Eso es característico de la conversación humana, y de su respuesta vienen una porción de obras teatrales mas o menos largas.

… there is something very strange and childish in the way grown-ups feel about their clocks—in that respect, I was never a child. I am willing to agree that the clock is probably the most remarkable thing that grown-ups ever produced. Grown-ups have it in them to be creative, and sometimes, with the help of ambition, hard work, and a bit of luck they actually are, but being grown-ups, they have no sooner created some epoch-making invention than they become a slave to it.

Ao longo da orla do marvenho descalço - para lá e para cá - ao meu encontro.

Here was happiness; not my drum, to be sure, just an ersatz, but there is also a thing as arsatz happiness, perhaps happiness is an ersatz for happiness.

Here was happiness; not my drum, to be sure, just an ersatz, but there is also a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness.