Peter Handke quotes

Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, and translator known for his innovative and experimental literary style. His works often explore themes of language, identity, and the complexities of human experience. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here are 10 of his quotes:

A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one's history, one's past, to stop feeling that one's present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.

Peter Handke

Proud of my near-madness, as if I had attained a goal.

Peter Handke

My way of thinking is often so wrong, so untenable, because I think as if I were talking to someone else.

Peter Handke

Tense, unnerved, and close to madness before writing-and when I read what I've written it looks so calm.

Peter Handke

When the child was a child, it didn't know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

Peter Handke

I was angry at her for not being what I wanted.

Peter Handke

I was no longer superficial - I had stopped thinking.

Peter Handke

The main thing:... not to let myself be defined by history, not to take it as an excuse-despise it in those who hide their personal insignificance behind it-and yet know it, in order to understand people and above all to see through them.

Peter Handke

The main thing:... not to let myself be defined by history, not to take it as an excuse-despise it in those who hide their personal insignificance behind it-and yet know it, in order to understand people and above all to see through them (my hatred of history as a refuge for be-nothings).

Peter Handke