Torberg Friedrich Quotes

#1. I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts,
Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

Philip James Bailey

#2. Sometimes, the only thing that stands in your way from moving on completely is one question. Sadly, it is the one question God asked another person to answer for you. Be the solution, not the problem.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction ... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Evan Parker

#4. The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

#5. Our daily gratitude shapes our everyday attitude.

H. L. Balcomb

#6. Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Ramana Maharshi

#7. Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?

W. Bernard Carlson

#8. There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. I'm not a poet and I'm not a nature lover and I'm not an Anarchist. I am, thank God, absolutely nothing.

Nescio

#10. You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

S.E. Hinton

#11. Cotillion's response was cool and dry. 'You've always underestimated the Empress. Hence our present circumstances . . .

Steven Erikson

#12. Your life ain't a target for the world to shoot at. The world is a target for your life to shoot at.

Alden Bell