Irmgard F Quotes & Sayings

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And now I feel like crying, because I really do not understand, and I don't think I will when I'm older either. It was only when I loved Franz I understood the world, and felt happy. When you love, you're praying. Everything was quite clear. I wanted to be good. I think you begin things the right way when you want to be good. And I think I'm doing everything wrong now because all I want is for people to be good to me. I want to be loved, everybody wants to be loved; for a thousand people who want to be loved there may perhaps be just one who wants to love. Our Father which art in heaven ... my heart is all a lump of grief. — Irmgard Keun

People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society. — Tipper Gore

God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and making the world fat with the love of God and everyman ... But the man is old, after all, his fountains of life run dry, without a trace remaining of human affections ... Only someone who has become slow and watertight with old age, satiated and hardened with pleasure, will go to youth and say, Renounce! ... And yet the youth renounces nothing, but sins royally for forty years. Such is the course of nature! — Knut Hamsun

From Fall Irmgard:
"My father preached to me from an early age," Addie said, proudly. "Whether in English or in French, it will be a strong vocabulary and not a strong arm that wins the most battles in one's lifetime! — Rand Charles

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses. — Nadia Boulanger

They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds. — Irmgard Keun

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I'll tell u boys it's tough to be alone,
and it's tough to love a doll that's not ur own. — Arthur Miller

Mistakes can be very beautiful. Mistakes lead to surprises. Even joy. And joy makes life worth living. — Ryan Winfield

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't. — John Stossel

I used to think you could help people only with money. Actually, you can't really help anyone, but you can give them pleasure. — Irmgard Keun

Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality. — Frederick Lenz

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone. — Jincy Willett

My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes. — LZ Granderson