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Robert Walser Quotes

I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it? Picture Quote #1

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it Picture Quote #1

Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily, kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excrutiating Picture Quote #1

Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange Picture Quote #1

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox Picture Quote #1

How uninteresting interesting things can become Picture Quote #1

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Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls Picture Quote #1

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I’m not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!... You have been my body’s health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were Picture Quote #1

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles Picture Quote #1

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought Picture Quote #1

One is always half mad when one is shy of people Picture Quote #1

Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance Picture Quote #1

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I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future Picture Quote #1

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent Picture Quote #1

I’d like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it’s quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don’t fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again Picture Quote #1

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it Picture Quote #1

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death Picture Quote #1

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings Picture Quote #1

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To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel Picture Quote #1

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I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it? (Robert Walser Quotes) Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it. (Robert Walser Quotes) Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily, kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excrutiating. (Robert Walser Quotes) Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange (Robert Walser Quotes) Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox. (Robert Walser Quotes) How uninteresting interesting things can become (Robert Walser Quotes) Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls (Robert Walser Quotes) Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I’m not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!... You have been my body’s health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were (Robert Walser Quotes) That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles (Robert Walser Quotes) That lovely things exist is a lovely thought (Robert Walser Quotes) One is always half mad when one is shy of people (Robert Walser Quotes) Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance (Robert Walser Quotes) I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future (Robert Walser Quotes) When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent (Robert Walser Quotes) I’d like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it’s quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don’t fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again (Robert Walser Quotes) Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it (Robert Walser Quotes) At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death (Robert Walser Quotes) With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings (Robert Walser Quotes) To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel (Robert Walser Quotes)