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ROBERT MUSIL Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz,
Die das Leben vergänglich zieren!
Wer besitzt, der ...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Das Leben geht weiter.
Manchmal fragte ich mich, ob diese Tatsache nicht das Grausamste an unse...
MAX RHODE Wenn ich nur ein Telephon habe, der Wald
wird sich finden! Ohne Telephon kann man nur
...
KARL KRAUS Es ist ein Unterschied, ob wir wissen das anderen Menschen Darsteller in unserem Leben sind, oder ob...
JOHN STRELECKY Im Verlaufe nicht nur der ökonomischen, sondern auch der politischen Globalisierung kann das kardin...
HELMUT SCHMIDT Die großartigste Fähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes ist vielleicht die, mit Schmerzen fertig zu we...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wer niemals ganze Nachmittage lang mit glühenden Ohren und verstrubbeltem Haar über einem Buch sa�...
MICHAEL ENDE Bei den Big Five geht es um die fünf Dinge, die man in seinem Leben tun, sehen oder erleben will, b...
JOHN STRELECKY Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. De...
JULI ZEH Sich mit diesem oder jenem zu identifizieren, ist also ein normaler Vorgang. Gefährlich wird es, so...
NAVID KERMANI Als ob meine Eltern sich jemals ernsthaft für ihre Nachbarn interessiert hätten oder gar umgekehrt...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Auf dem allerersten Foto, das von mir geschossen wurde, liege ich auf der Säuglingsstation, eingewi...
RAZIEL REID Sollte ein Muggel so unklug sein, einem anderen anzuvertrauen, er habe einen Hippogreif gesehen, der...
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KATE MOSSE Der Pragmatismus ersetzt uns alles, was früher die großen Ideen, die Ideologien und Religionen, de...
JULI ZEH Siehst Du, Momo", sagte er, "es ist so: Manchmal hat man eine sehr lange Straße vor sich. Man denkt...
MICHAEL ENDE Was sind das für Konstellationen in der Gegenwart, in denen zufällige oder angeborene Unterschiede...
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AL-FAITURI Das Bild vom Wirtschaftsgeschehen als einem Wettlauf oder Wettkampf ist in seinen Details etwas vers...
J.M. COETZEE . Aber sie tatens. ER überlebte länger, aber beide hielten sich lange. Zwei der neuen SF Serien we...
STAR TREK Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man.
[Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Rätselhafterweise ist Schriftsteller trotzdem der schönste Beruf der Welt. Mehr als das. Schriftst...
JULI ZEH Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Jeder von uns hat zweierlei Geist. Einen wachen Geist und einen schlafenden Geist. Unser wacher Geis...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Der Wahnsinn ist nur die Kehrseite der Macht, beide Ungeheuer wurden erschaffen, um einander zu näh...
FAWZI MELLAH Ein Greenhorn schleppt der Reinlichkeit wegen einen Waschschwamm von der Größe eines Riesenkürbis...
KARL MAY Wer mit den Haien schwimmt, der darf nicht bluten. Aber, mein Freund, Du blutest gerade. Und zwar he...
DAVID GRAY Das Amt für Desinformation pflegt nur bei schwersten Zusammenstößen von Magierwelt und Muggeln t�...
NEWT SCAMANDER Der Kreis des Blutes Vollendung findet,
Der Stein der Weisen die Ewigkeit bindet.
Im Kleid...
KERSTIN GIER In der Fabrik hing oben am Giebel, der am höchsten in den Himmel und am tiefsten in den Hof schaute...
HERTA MüLLER Wen das Wort nicht schlägt, den schlägt auch der Stock nicht.
SOCRATES Terror - manchmal offen ausgedrückt, doch meistens stillschweigend erkannt - schleicht sich in die ...
KATHLEEN BARRY Dein Leben sind Bernhard und die Kinder. Schneide es nicht ab . Wer nur in Abschnitten lebt, dem feh...
DANIEL GLATTAUER Dieser Zwang zu Überfluss ist weder effizient für die Umwelt, noch für den Geldbeutel.
LORENZO FRICK So sind die Dinge manchmal. Wenn alles am schlimmsten ist, dann wirft der Verstand alles in einen Pa...
RICHARD BACHMAN Reiten, reiten, reiten, durch den Tag,
durch die Nacht, durch den Tag.
Reiten, reiten, re...
RAINER MARIA RILKE For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
[Ger., Denn der Wille
Und nicht die Gabe macht ...
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING Diese jungen Menschen hatten keine Wünsche, keine Überzeugungen, geschweige denn Ideale, sie streb...
JULI ZEH Der Schmerz, den wir alle über diesen Verlust empfinden, erinnert mich, erinnert uns, daran, dass, ...
J.K. ROWLING Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Mädchen kriegen Titten und vergessen, wie klug und mutig sie einmal waren. Auch Jungen haben ihre e...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Und manchmal passiert einem das Leben einfach, und man kann ihm nicht ausweichen Es kracht voll in e...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit...
JULI ZEH Dafür dass wir, wie auch die Tiere, von den Pflanzen leben, ja ohne sie nicht einmal atmen könnten...
ERNST JüNGER einige gitarren, ein klavier, mikrophone von der decke, kleine schaumstoffpyramiden an den wänden. ...
DAVID RAMIRER Aber man lebt nicht ewig in einem Alptraum. Der Mensch hat die Fähigkeit, selbst in den abnormalste...
NATASCHA KAMPUSCH Irgendwo war mir ein Rest von Glauben an den freien Willen geblieben, aber an diesem Morgen war ich ...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Es fehlt uns eben leider nie an Geld für unsere Launen. Wir markten nur um den Preis für nützlich...
HONORé DE BALZAC Ein Traum ist nichts anderes, als eine mögliche Wirklichkeit, die nur darauf wartet, stattzufinden....
JOHN STRELECKY auf einem spielplatz im park hat sich ein junges paar auf zwei schaukeln gesetzt und führt ein lang...
DAVID RAMIRER Wenn der Alltag dir arm erscheint, klage ihn nicht an – klage dich an, daß du nicht stark genug b...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Ich möchte wissen", sagte er vor sich hin, "was eigentlich in einem Buch los ist, solang es zu ist....
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FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Oh mein Sohn, es wird auch berichtet, dass Luqman (der Weise) seinem Sohn riet: "Oh Sohn, du möchte...
أبو حامد محمد الغزالي Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum
nicht jede wächst zur Frucht
sie schimmern hell wie...
HERMANN HESSE The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
[Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist
Doch einzig und...
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING Olaf hielt sich keineswegs für etwas Besonderes; seine Heavy-Metal-Kutte und die schwarzen T-Shirts...
JULI ZEH Der Spirit der Mitarbeiter ist wichtiger als das Controlling der Corporate Monkeys.
CARSTEN K. RATH Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.
None are m...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Du kannst ihn nicht mehr enttäuschen, er ist nicht mehr da.“
Riley knallte sein Glas auf die...
JAYDEN V. REEVES What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit;
What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.
[Ger....
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Oh, oh. Gerade habe ich mir noch ein Wolf gelacht, aber jetzt starre ich fassungslos auf den Hipster...
NINA MACKAY Der Mensch ist taub und blind gegen die Welt, aber er spürt es wie Rheuma, wenn ihn etwas am Schick...
JULI ZEH Mitleid mit den Thieren hängt mit der Güte des Charakters so genau zusammen, daß man zuversichtli...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Man sollte meinen, in eine Million Stücke zerhackt und in den finstersten Teil der Unterwelt geworf...
RICK RIORDAN Der feste Beruf auf Lebenszeit [...] ist ein Produkt der Industrialisierung.
SASCHA LOBO An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the
herd.
[Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nach...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Wie wohlhabend, wie einflussreich sie waren, wie sie prosperiert hatten unter einer Regierung, die s...
IAN MCEWAN No, no! The devil is an egotist,
And is not apt, without why or wherefore,
"For God's sake," ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Es ist für das Franchise sicher das Ende einer Ära ... Es ist das Ende der Ära von Rick Berman , ...
DOMINIC KEATING Es ist für das Franchise sicher das Ende einer Ära ... Es ist das Ende der Ära von Rick Berman , ...
DOMINIC KEATING Ich würde niemandem raten die Luft anzuhalten ... Abgesehen von der Filmfrage, denke...
RENE AUBERJONOIS Menschen konnten nichts anderes sein als Menschen. Sie zogen sich Roben an oder Handschellen und tat...
JULI ZEH »Ist euch schon mal aufgefallen, dass es keine Dynastie für Mörder, Vergewaltiger oder Diebe gibt...
NICOLE GOZDEK Jeder erzählt in seinem eigenen Kopf eine Geschichte über sich. Ununterbrochen. Die ganze Zeit. Un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Das Ufer des Flusses und der vielen glitzernden Bächlein, die ihm auf allerlei Umwegen zuströmten,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Komm, Prinzessin, wir sehen nach, ob der Laden deines Vaters noch steht.
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI …
Das verschlug mir für einen Moment die Sprache, ich hatte nicht gedacht, dass es so schlim...
MARTINA RIEMER Der Autor (...) sieht, daß die Zeitgenossen, störrisch wie die Esel, rückwärts laufen, einem kla...
ERICH KäSTNER Wie ich höre, zeigt auch der Himmel eine Leidenschaft für das Neue. Ein Stern wird müde, ein Ster...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Ich bin jemand, der ich nicht bin
ich gehe, aber ich weiß nicht, wohin
ich fühle, aber i...
EUGEN RUGE Stern is the visage of necessity.
[Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nachahmung ist die aufrichtigste Form der Schmeichelei.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der
Apfel blieb, da ihn nie...
FRANZ KAFKA [D]ie spezielle Müdigkeit, die jeden befällt, der sich anhören muss, was gut und böse, richtig u...
JULI ZEH Es ist nicht wichtig, was passiert, wenn Sie da sind, sondern was geschieht, wenn Sie nicht da sind.
CARSTEN K. RATH Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie ve...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Natürlich dauerte es eine Weile, bis alles kompliziert genug wurde, um Gaswolken, Galaxien, Planete...
TERRY PRATCHETT Die Natur ist pragmatisch. Jedes Tier ist pragmatisch. Der Mensch ist es dort, wo ihm die Ideen ausg...
JULI ZEH Die älteste Sprache, sagt man, sei das Indogermanische, Indo-europäische, das Sanskrit. Aber es is...
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J.M. BARRIE I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my sha...
J.M. BARRIE The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were ...
J.M. BARRIE America's over. Get out while you still can.
J.M. PORUP The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his h...
J.M. BARRIE The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
J.M. BARRIE I've heard some stupid questions in my life. Usually they come in clusters: Why do you have that ...
J.M. DARHOWER A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are ...
J.M. BARRIE Like Dinah says, “We can only play the cards we’ve been dealt. It doesn’t do any good to wish ...
J.M. SULLIVAN There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
J.M. BARRIE We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we ope...
J.M. HARRISON The Heart of what you are is not your body or your thoughts but pure Consciousness itself.
J.M. HARRISON You have enemies the moment you have success. Our job is finding a way to do business with them. Eve...
J.M. LAWLER I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was...
J.M. RICHARDS It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of ...
J.M. RICHARDS I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Bra...
J.M. RICHARDS Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’r...
J.M. RICHARDS When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bra...
J.M. RICHARDS I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is ...
J.M. RICHARDS I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
J.M. RICHARDS I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
J.M. RICHARDS You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that,...
J.M. RICHARDS As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, stro...
J.M. RICHARDS Being in love with your best friend is problematic.
J.M. RICHARDS You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how st...
J.M. DARHOWER Um, you don’t have to join me, but if you’re looking for a table, there are a couple good seats ...
J.M. RICHARDS Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
J.M. MCDERMOTT The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but see...
J.M. SYNGE As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
J.M. SYNGE You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.
J.M. BARRIE Boy, why are you crying?
J.M. BARRIE It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.
J.M. BARRIE He was never more sinister than when he was most polite...
J.M. BARRIE For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange...
J.M. BARRIE She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was li...
J.M. BARRIE If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colo...
J.M. BARRIE There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was...
J.M. BARRIE The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ...
J.M. RICHARDS I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again...
J.M. RICHARDS It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di...
J.M. RICHARDS The only ghosts, I believe, who creep into this world, are dead
young mothers, returned to see...
J.M. BARRIE Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world.
J.M. BARRIE It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to ...
J.M. BARRIE When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in yo...
J.M. BARRIE Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the oth...
J.M. BARRIE It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not ...
J.M. BARRIE Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; ...
J.M. BARRIE she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. DARHOWER You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But...
J.M. DARHOWER Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J.M. BARRIE When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ...
J.M. DARHOWER He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos...
J.M. DARHOWER He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb...
J.M. DARHOWER Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
J.M. BARRIE Of course Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no nigh...
J.M. BARRIE You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
J.M. BARRIE We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
J.M. BARRIE Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and me...
J.M. BARRIE See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
J.M. BARRIE he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.
J.M. BARRIE Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies
away with the big crust, you k...
J.M. BARRIE All children, except one, grow up
J.M. BARRIE For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and
the moment you doubt whether yo...
J.M. BARRIE No fue el dolor, sino lo injusto del asunto, lo que atontó a Peter. Lo dejó impotent...
J.M. BARRIE Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night
J.M. BARRIE I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf...
J.M. RICHARDS The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS