Herta Müller Quotes

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with i...

He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village...

Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a ...

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way ...

Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, becaus...

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers th...

No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I e...

The Russian commands sound like the name of the camp commandant. Shishtvanyanov: a gnashing and splu...

I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too ...

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only mo...

Silence is also a form of speaking. They’re exactly alike. It’s a basic component of language. We’re...

Tereza's death hurt me so much, it was as if I had two heads smashing into each other. One was full ...

Silence is also a form of speaking.

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as i...

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using wor...