53 Quotes by Peter Handke

It’s intolerable that when someone is born into the world, he can’t automatically come to consciousness.

El cansancio abre, le hace a uno poroso, crea una permeabilidad para la epopeya de todos los seres vivos, incluso de estos animales de ahora.

Adoptar movimientos lentos para toda la vida.

Sorrow beyond dreams.

In a sense, the mentally deranged and feebleminded were my guardian angels, and when I hadn’t seen any of them in a long time, the sight of an idiot gave me a sudden burst of health and strength.

Horror is something perfectly natural: the mind’s emptiness. A thought is taking shape, then suddenly it notices that there is nothing more to think. Whereupon it crashes to the ground like a figure in a comic strip who suddenly realises that he has been walking on air.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.

Everything is created to be annihilated.