Peter Handke Famous Quotes



"I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist"


Peter Handke Quotations






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He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Chinese Proverb

"The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too."
Frederick Buechner

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van der Post

"The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."
Socrates

"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
Charles Lindbergh

"As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do."
Zachary Scott

The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind.
Endre Balogh

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J Robert Oppenheimer

"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
Josh Billings

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.
Georges Bataille