Robert Seethaler Quotes

#1. He couldn't remember where he had come from, and ultimately he didn't know where he would go. But he could look back without regret on the time in between, his life, with a full-throated laugh and utter amazement.

Robert Seethaler

#2. Death belonged to life like mould to bread.

Robert Seethaler

#3. You can buy a man's hours off him, you can steal his days from him, or you can rob him of his whole life, but no one can take away from any man so much as a single moment. That's the way it is.

Robert Seethaler

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

Robert Seethaler

#5. He had already been so long in the world: he had seen it change and seem to spin faster with every passing year, and he felt like a remnant from some long-buried time, a thorny weed still stretching up, for as long as it possibly could, towards the sun.

Robert Seethaler

#6. 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.

Robert Seethaler

#7. Or do you think perhaps the mountain has a memory?

Robert Seethaler