Wolfgang Borchert famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.
-- Wolfgang Borchert

#Death #Men #Circles
Truth will only make you unpopular.
-- Wolfgang Borchert

#Truth
People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.
-- Wolfgang Borchert

#Hands #Play #Numbers
I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.
-- Wolfgang Borchert

#Dark #Planets #Should

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
No one man is superior to the game.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

Wolfgang Borchert famous quotes

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