Austerlitz Quotes

#1. Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had sometimes seemed to him a blank point without duration, I would probably have waited more patiently.

W.G. Sebald

#2. And might it not be, continued Austerlitz, that we also have appointments to keep in the past, in what has gone before and is for the most part extinguished, and must go there in search of places and people who have some connection with us on the far side of time, so to speak?

W.G. Sebald

#3. A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

Roscoe Conkling

#5. The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Martha Grimes

#7. I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.

William Faulkner

#8. It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

Henry Rollins

#9. I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

Bjork

#10. Whatever the "real" differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike.

Kate Millett

#11. I object to murder. It's just a silly girlish prejudice.

Elizabeth Peters