Herta Müller Quotes

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this very important--does it want to know how things stand with me.

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Silence is also a form of speaking.

He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face.

I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so. I told myself that my tears were due tot he cold, and I believed myself.