Quotes of famous people

“Isn't it clear that the war makers are gambling with your lives, while pocketing huge profits?”

“My boys may charge me with all they want. The main thing is, it helps them. They are not evil and no criminals. They are the products of total war, grown up on the streets of scattered towns without any education! The only thing [they] knew was to handle weapons for the Dream of [the] Reich. They were young people with a hot heart and the desire to win or to die, according to the word: right or wrong—my country!”

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”

“Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.”

“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”

“Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.”

“Wasting time is one of the worst faults of the world. Life is so short, every moment is so precious and yet, we live as if life will never end.”

“Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.”

“I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.”

“The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.”

“Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.”

“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF… my GOD.”

“Friendship between those of the same sex attains an erotic tone, which comes into consciousness, and which also occasionally increases to the point of desire. Here, for older medicine, was where pathology began, for older jurisprudence, where criminality began, without providing any reason for either.”

“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.”

“There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious out-look; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows!”

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”

“We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.”

“But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.”