Quotes by : Bernhard Schlink

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life....

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep....

Când ne deschidemtu mie şi eu ţie,când ne scufundămtu în mine şi eu în tine,când ne pierdemtu....

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen....

As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what....

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I....

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight....

why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...