Marlen Haushofer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.
-- Marlen Haushofer

#Waiting #Anxiety #Bud
External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.
-- Marlen Haushofer
Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.
-- Marlen Haushofer

#Skins #Branches #Want

I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.
Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
A leaf cannot return to the bud - bluestar to fireheart and greystripe
To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

Marlen Haushofer famous quotes

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