55 Quotes by Hermann Broch

[...] siauras, pailgas ir liūdnas virš keterų pakibo mėnulio pjautuvas, užsimojęs pjūčiai, bet nekertantis.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them