Ingeborg Bachmann Quotes

Nonetheless even in capitulation there is still hope, and this hope of human beings never ends, will never end.

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

I can no longer see a path in any path.

The simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep ...

Ivan and I: the world converging.
Malina and I, since we are one: the world diverging.

I have lived in Ivan and die in Malina.

With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.

Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.

The facts that make the world real
these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

I am a dead man who wanders
registered nowhere

No new world without a new language.

I don't take drugs, I take books.

speak across borders
even if borders pass through every word.

My share, it should be lost.