Robert Walser quotes

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future. (Robert Walser)
When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it's easy to stay silent. View quote
Robert Walser
One is always half mad when one is shy of people. View quote
Robert Walser
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings. View quote
Robert Walser
I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad. View quote
Robert Walser
That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles. View quote
Robert Walser
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls. View quote
Robert Walser
How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world's silence in a circle dance. View quote
Robert Walser

Robert Walser

Occupation: Writer
Quotes count: 8

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