Selbst das schönste Ding der Natur, die Blume, gräbt ihre Wurzeln in Erde und Mist.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
Alle Männer sind kleine Kinder, wenn man ihnen erst einmal auf die Spur kommt.
Eine Frau muss ihr Leben leben oder leben, um zu bereuen, dass sie es nicht gelebt hat.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.
I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.
A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
Den Kopf in den Rachen das Löwen zu stecken, ist auch nicht gefährlicher, als ihn von einer Frau streicheln zu lassen.
Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy p-nis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say 'shit!' in front of a lady.
Moral ist der instinktive Widerwille einer Mehrheit.
Geld ist eine Art Instinkt. Geld machen ist eine Art Naturveranlagung im Menschen.
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money.
Unser Zeitalter ist seinem Wesen nach tragisch, also weigern wir uns, es tragisch zu nehmen. Die Katastrophe ist hereingebrochen, wir stehen vor den Trümmern, wir fangen an, neue kleine Gewohnheiten zu bilden, neue kleine Hoffnungen zu hegen. Es ist ein hartes Stück Arbeit: Kein ebener Weg führt in die Zukunft; wir umgehen die Hindernisse jedoch oder klettern über sie hinweg. Wir müssen leben – einerlei, wie viele Himmel eingestürzt sind.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
Liebe ist die Blume des Lebens, sie blüht unerwartet und ohne Regeln und muss gepflückt werden wo man sie findet und für den kurzen Moment den sie besteht genossen werden.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Ich möchte ein Leben ohne Nächte der Reue leben.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
