Marlen Haushofer Quotes

#1. Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

Marlen Haushofer

#2. Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.

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#3. The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.

Marlen Haushofer

#4. External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

Marlen Haushofer

#5. I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.

Marlen Haushofer

#6. I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.

Marlen Haushofer