Author of quotes: Heinrich Boll. Page 4

How often have I walked along the very edge of being, fearlessly, as if drunk, walking with incomprehensible balance along a narrow path over an abyss towards my goal.

There is a law that everyone must be happy.

He was as serious as a buffalo that hadn't tasted anything but the call of duty for decades.

It was good to stand here with your hands in your pockets, looking at the seagulls, and reveling in sadness.

Before, when he did not drive away those who lack five pfennings, I liked him more. However, now he has a real trade, and trade is trade.

Something weird is happening to us. Maybe some professor will explain it to us through the newspaper: they have their own explanation for everything.

Of course, I earn little, it is never enough to pay the rent.

It's great when someone finds a place in life again.

It's great when someone finds a place in life again.

I was afraid to drive over the bridge, despite all the explanations about its safety factor and carrying capacity, which were given to me by acquaintances knowledgeable in engineering. Simply, I was a coward. The very combination of the train - the bridge gave rise to fear in me.

Sympathy overwhelmed him, all, all of them in the grip of this senseless monstrous system.

Debt is the most dangerous thing for the poor.

He knew that he was deceiving himself, and yet, realizing this, he believed in the deception.

He had a very strange feeling: time passed ghostly quickly and at the same time insanely slowly, it was illusory, incomprehensible, contradictory, and it was terrible to be in his power.