Herman Koch famous quotes

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  • There's no regrets for me.

  • I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful

  • Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

  • But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

  • Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness...

  • Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.

  • The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

  • because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

  • You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

  • By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism , and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism 's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.