Fallada Quotes

#1. Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

Hans Fallada

#2. Don't Forget!" She shouted as she walked away.
"Love persevered. It's the men who change.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Anna Quangel felt herself trembling. Then she looked over at Otto again. He might be right: whether their act was big or small, no one could risk more than his life. Each according to his strength and abilities, but the main thing was, you fought back. Still

Hans Fallada

#4. Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.

Hans Fallada

#5. And so it had been going on week after week. Month after month. That was what was so discouraging, that it went on so endlessly. Hadn't he once believed that it was all over? The worst thing was that it went on. And on, and on, with no end in sight.

Hans Fallada

#6. Anna Quangel wishes she could stroke her husband's hand, but she doesn't dare. She just brushes it, as if by accident, and says, 'Oh, sorry, Otto!' He looks at her in surprise, but doesn't say anything. They walk on.

Hans Fallada

#7. She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.

Hans Fallada

#8. As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn't mean that we are alone.

Hans Fallada

#9. Every connection you create either helps or hurts you

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#10. We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.

Simon Singh

#11. It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

Hans Fallada

#12. I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20's.

Todd English

#13. I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

Hans Fallada

#14. Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn.

Hans Fallada

#15. The point is not to read widely so that your voice will be sort of a mutt descended from them all. The point is to read widely enough to know what delights you, what you would like to imitate, and what you want to stay away from.

Douglas Wilson

#16. By letting go of misguided beliefs, love and compassion can break through.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#17. The air was thick with betrayal. No one could trust anyone else, and in that dismal atmosphere the men seemed to grow even duller, devolving into mechanical extensions of the machines they serviced.

Hans Fallada

#18. The trembling increased, a moan of grief was heard, nothing articulate - as a bird in the night sometimes laments alone.

Hans Fallada

#19. It is always easier to curse in another language than your own!

Evan Currie

#20. What we think of as the soul is just a mingling of genetics and our parents, in my case, slowly torturing me, or in your case giving you complete unconditional love.

Sarah Ruhl

#21. You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Jennifer O'Neill