“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.” ChildrenWarPoliticsWomen Book:Every Man Dies Alone Source: Every Man Dies Alone
“A man whose wife has done everything he wishes for twenty years can never understand why she so suddenly changes. The woman who for twenty years has been silent, forgiving, smiling, patient, becomes in his eyes a rebel when in the twenty-first year she loses her patience and argues, accuses, demands explanations.Then she is a mutineer against whom every stratagem is permissible. Twenty years of patience have only given her the right to be patient also in the twenty-first.” WomenPatience Book:Wolf Among Wolves Source: Wolf Among Wolves
“Oh, but childhoods go by so quickly too, we have them for such a short time - six years? Ten at the most? We are so alone in this life.” LifeChildhoodAlone Book:Little Man, What Now? Source: Little Man, What Now?
“Pech ist heute nur noch die Würze des Glücks!” PhilosophieGlückWeisheitPechvogel Book:Damals bei uns daheim. Erlebtes, Erfahrenes und Erfundenes Source: Damals bei uns daheim. Erlebtes, Erfahrenes und Erfundenes