"I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again."

--

Source : Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Robert Walser

#Pain Quotes #Smart Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.”

Source : Carolyn Davidson (2014). “Maggie's Beau”, p.196, Harlequin
“Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.”
“God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.”
“A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.”
“Conceit is God's gift to little men.”
“The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.”

Source : George Cooper Stevens, John Mason Brown (1974). “Speak for yourself, John: the life of John Mason Brown, with some of his letters and many of his opinions”, Viking Adult
“Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.”
“The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.”

You may also like:

Franz Kafka
Writer
Heinrich von Kleist
Poet
Hermann Hesse
Poet
J. M. Coetzee
Novelist
Martin Walser
Writer
Robert Musil
Writer
Thomas Bernhard
Novelist
W. G. Sebald
Writer
Walter Benjamin
Literary critic