Quotes by : Christa Wolf

The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with....

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself,....

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects....

Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they....

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun....

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person....

Coldness in everything. It comes from a long way off; it gets into everything. One must get out of the....