Jan-Philipp Sendker Quotes

Where does love end and madness begin,

To forgive, one must love and be loved. Only those who forgive can be free. Whoever forgives is a prisoner no more.

To live means to suffer. Nothing is permanent.

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they're not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

There was the world of the sick and dying and the world of the hale. The healthy and hale did not want to know anything about the sick and dying.

Person's greatest treasure is the wisdom in his own heart.

Nothing in this world had a fixed place. Everything was in motion.

The soul of a people does not change overnight.

There are moments that we simply cannot endure. They transform us into someone else.

Hearts sounded different from person to person, betraying age or youth, joy, sorrow, fear, or courage, but that was all.

THERE must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know it ceases to exist.

Images can fade. Sounds and smells disappear from our memory. But our heart forgets nothing. A child's soul knows everything.

It is our own flaws that we are least ready to forgive in others.

Sometimes we must search afar to find what's close at hand.

We often discover only many years later whether life and the stars were smiling upon us or not. Life can take the most surprising turns. What

Laughter has many meanings here. We laugh when something is unpleasant. When we are afraid. When we are angry." "Is it a kind of

The master is mistaken: to live is to love.

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

It's true I lost my eyesight many years ago. But that doesn't mean I'm blind.

Fear blinds and deafens. Rage blinds and deafens. So, too, envy and suspicion. There was only one force stronger than fear.

Every step we take leaves a trace.

Anyone who has been betrayed carries that betrayal inside himself. How

- Find out who you were. Why

We believe that we see the world around us, and yet it is only the surface that we perceive.

In the hell of the well-intentioned. That was how he referred to the charity balls my mother helped organize.

Because we see only what we already know. We project our own capacities - for good as well as evil - onto the other person.

Anyone who has been the victim of violence carries that violence inside himself. Anyone

Death is not the end of life, but a stage thereof.

Themes so vast that only composers could even approach them. If at all. All other artists must practice humility before them.

Heartbeat to the next. The moment when a lover confesses

Loneliness is the most severe punishment. We are not built to handle it. I

In a sooty kettle. In one corner, orange-colored sodas were stacked in wooden crates. I had never been in such a wretched hovel.

How many times must we be loved in order to be happy?

Not all truths are explicable, Julia," he said. "And not all explicable things are true.

There is nothing, for good or for evil, of which a person is incapable.

HOW THIN IS the wall between us and madness? No one knows what it is made

Were there people who simply did not belong together? Who loved each other, but who were nevertheless happier when they were apart? Certainly

Besides, I have no point of comparison," he declared, his eyes still closed. "That is the secret of a happy life.

The world was full of signs. One needed only to know how to see and interpret them.

Became clear that there were no high-stakes life-insurance

Is it true that we can count the moments in which something really happens in our lives? Do we notice it right away, or only in hindsight?

We are not condemned to remain who we are. No one can help us do this but ourselves.

Why do we so often put off the things that matter most to us?

We are responsible not only for what we do, but also for what we fail to do.