97 Quotes by Robert Walser

We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.

I am dying of the incomprehension of those who could have seen me and held me, dying of the emptiness of cautious and clever people, and of the lovelessness of hesitancy and not-much-liking.

I wanted to speak with someone, but found no time; sought some fixed point, but found none. In the midst of the unrelenting forward thrust I felt the wish to stand still. The muchness and the motion were too much and too fast. Everyone withdrew from everyone. There was a running, as of something liquefied, a constant going forth, as of evaporation. Everything was schematic, ghostlike, even myself.

God is the opposite of Rodin.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

Walk,′ was my answer, ‘I definitely must, to invigorate myself and to maintain contact with the living world... Without walking, I would be dead.

Wherever there are children, there will always be injustice.

To me it’s as if the day has been tossed into my lap by a benevolent god who likes to gives things to good-for-nothings.

I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it?