“Educate your children never to serve your nation; to serve the nation makes monkey out of human, killing on the basis of nationality and religion. If you wanna serve your nation, serve through science, serve through art, serve through music, literature, industry, but never through military.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“If you wanna serve your nation, serve through science, serve through art, serve through music, literature, industry, but never through military.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.”
“Fight the battles you can win, run from those you can’t. Good words to keep you alive.”
Source: Blackwing
“Vielleicht ist meine Kunst die Kunst eines Wahnsinnigen, ein funkelndes Quecksilber, eine blaue Seele, die über meine Bilder hereinbricht.”
Source: My life
“Liebe ist niemals normal. Sie ist immer abnormal. Tief in unseren Herzen umarmen wir nicht. Wir verstümmeln.”
Source: Der Letzte Grosse Schrecken
“Es gibt so viel untherapierten Wahnsinn, so vieles, was die Gesellschaft für normal erklärt hat, obwohl es durchaus den Stempel des Wahnsinns verdient.”
Source: Depression abzugeben
“Безумие не в том, что один сходит с ума, а в том, что свидетелями и соучастниками этого становятся миллионы.”
Source: Fragments
“Die Ganzheit ist eine Wunschvorstellung der Nervenzerrüttung.”
Source: Maria Lassnig. Bilder 1989 - 2001. Kunstpreis der Nord / LB 2002
“Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a
version of yourself who has been seeking you.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road