49 Quotes by Robert Seethaler

People were evidently looking for something in the mountains that they believed they had lost a long time ago. He never worked out what exactly this was, but over the years he became more and more that the tourists were stumbling not so much after him but after some obscure, insatiable longing.

Scars are like years, he said: one follows another and it’s all of them together that make a person who they are.

Life and the work on the mountain had left their mark. Everything about him was warped and crooked. His back seemed to be heading down towards the earth in a tight curve, and he increasingly had the feeling that his spine was growing up over his head. On the mountain his foothold was still firm, and not even the strong autumn downwinds could make him lose his balance, but he stood like a tree that was already rotten inside.

Die Liebe kommt und geht, und man kennt sich vorher nicht aus, und man kennt sich nachher nicht aus, und am allerwenigstens kennt man sich aus, wenn sie da ist.