Quotes by : Herta Müller

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately....

He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we....

The Russian commands sound like the name of the camp commandant. Shishtvanyanov: a gnashing and spluttering....

I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many....

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.....

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face.....

No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped....

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words.....