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.

Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village....

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....

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if....

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.

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

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this....