Marlen Haushofer Quotes

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

Marlen Haushofer

#2. No matter how late it is, when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturize my face.

Demi Moore

#3. I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

Harold Ross

#4. The wealthiest 400 Americans now earn, on average, $345 million a year, and they pay an effective tax rate of 16.6 percent.

Bernie Sanders

#5. Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last sixty-five year was the refusal to face facts.(1075)

Ken Follett

#6. There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

Alex North

#7. This at least hasn't changed, the way men caress good cars.

Margaret Atwood

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

Marlen Haushofer

#9. 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

#10. I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

Brenda Fassie

#11. Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.

Saul Bellow

#12. It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.

Anton Chekhov

#13. When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

Marty Rubin

#14. 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

#15. It was the dread that comes about when you are allowed to have something that seems costly and yet you're not asked for payment.

Helen Oyeyemi

#16. If something were to happen that went against our current understanding of reality, scientists would see that as a challenge to our present model, requiring us to abandon or at least change it. It is through such adjustments and subsequent testing that we approach closer and closer to what is true.

Richard Dawkins

#17. 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.

Marlen Haushofer

#18. Keep the faith." -- Jon Bon Jovi

Michele L. Mathews

#19. 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