Author of quotes: Heinrich Boll. Page 1

I know that the ZUNAG concern sells thirty thousand boxes of its drug for kidney diseases every month. And all because they put out a great ad: giant posters depicting a diseased kidney ... and under it a silly but intelligible inscription: Do not

Slogans and advertisements that at first glance seem like a brilliant improvisation, short advertising stories that seem to inadvertently come out from under the pen, are in fact the fruit of hard, painstaking work, they are created on the basis of statistics, on extensive material.

So be the first person to listen to someone else's advice. You are like those stupid boys who want to see the war with their own eyes, although their fathers told them that it was dirt and nonsense.

Take care of time, hours are running out, days are fading away like cigarette smoke... the years flash by like a bad movie, and one day your daughters look like the movie stars you never liked.

Sometimes it seems involuntarily that emigration is a kind of habit, a kind of obligation that simply has to be fulfilled - no, economic circumstances make it truly necessary.

to worry, and, mind you, this is said by the people who, day and night, do not for a single minute remain without cause for concern.

It could

Fate has been granted an unlimited loan, and the interest on it is paid meekly and willingly: if children lie with whooping cough, choke from coughing, cry plaintively and demand selfless care, then you should be glad that you yourself keep on your feet, you can go after children, you can work for them.

I thought she would triumph, but this time I triumphed, and it was I who knew that triumph has a sour taste.

My words and the words of Ulla - all this has already been said countless times and still was not true, the words tasted like lies, and I felt this taste in my mouth: that's how it was when I told my father about the black market and the hunger - words, barely spoken, already became untrue.

My curiosity is firmly fused with another desire - I loved knowledge, because it brings money.

Reality is never given to us, it requires attention from us, active attention, not passive.

We are surrendered to the power of reality, surrendered from that very familiar moment when we cease to be children.

We sit on the second hand that separates the past from the future, and it moves so fast that we hardly notice this movement and think that we are frozen in place, frozen in modernity, while time continues to flow; everything behind the second hand is the past, everything ahead of it is the future; and we sit on this second hand and leave along with the flow of time.