Martin Walser Quotes

#1. The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

Idris Elba

#2. If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path toward it is the path of language.

Martin Walser

#3. Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Martin Walser

#4. You cannot spend 2,000 years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we're not interested in it anymore.

Martin Walser

#5. I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

Martin Walser

#6. and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#7. I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#8. Then he had run, unarmed and bleeding, trusting to the maze like confusion of the ruins to evade the monster behind him.

John Flanagan

#9. SHE MAY BE AN EVIL BITCH, BUT SHE IS MY EVIL BITCH. AND I'LL HAVE NO OTHER

Kresley Cole

#10. Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

Martin Walser

#11. Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

Martin Walser

#12. One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind

Martin Walser

#13. As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

Martin Walser

#14. Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.

Martin Walser

#15. You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

Martin Walser

#16. People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

Martin Walser

#17. Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

Martin Walser

#18. The secret of success is ... to be fully awake to everything about you.

Jackson Pollock

#19. My oldest son used to say his stomach had angries when he felt sick.
I always pictured an all night fight club for finger foods!!

Neil Leckman