53 Quotes by Heinrich Boll

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

If you want to do something... get up and actually do it!

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

I need very little reality.

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind. Take a word such as bread, or war; take a word such as chair, or bed or Heaven. Behind every word is a whole world. I'm afraid that most people use words as something to throw away without sensing the burden that lies in a word.

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.