Top 33 Toller Quotes
#1. Will, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely." "I
Arthur Conan Doyle
#2. The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.
Ernst Toller
#3. The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
Ernst Toller
#4. As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.
Ernst Toller
#5. Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.
William Zinsser
#6. As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.
Ernst Toller
#8. I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.
Scott Walker
#9. At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.
Ernst Toller
#10. After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?
Ernst Toller
#11. We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.
Ernst Toller
#12. In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
Ernst Toller
#13. Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
Ernst Toller
#14. We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.
Ernst Toller
#15. We are not only what we do, we are also what we imagine.
Bill Bryson
#16. The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
Ernst Toller
#17. Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
Ernst Toller
#18. Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.
Ernst Toller
#19. Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.
Toller Cranston
#20. Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.
Ace Antonio Hall
#21. It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost ...
Richard Bach
#22. To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.
Toller Cranston
#23. Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
Ernst Toller
#24. How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.
Ernst Toller
#25. When you learn to love your past it becomes the wings that allow you to fly rather than the burden you drag along behind you.
Victoria Reynolds
#26. I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
Ernst Toller
#27. I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.
Margaret Haddix
#28. And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
Ernst Toller
#29. Sometimes you have to let those you love chase the fucking wind on a whim because it's the only way they can free themselves from the nightmares within.
K. Bromberg
#30. And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
Ernst Toller
#31. Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.
Ernst Toller
#32. We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.
Ernst Toller
#33. So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
