Skip to content

Günter Grass Quotes

1927–2015 Germany

Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was widely regarded as Germany's most famous recently living writer.

Germany
Academics
Autobiographers
Essayists
Memoirists

Also known as: Grass, Günter

Random Günter Grass quote

4 quotes

Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

The Boys' Crusade (2003)

We of the long tails! We of the presentient whiskers! We of the perpetually growing teeth! We, the serried footnotes to man, his proliferating commentary. We, indestructible!

The Rat (1986)

I shall speak of … how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another … Of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next … Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis and progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Günter Grass (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.