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Quotes from The Hunger Angel — Herta Müller

born 1953 Germany

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23 quotes

There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

A lot of people think packing a suitcase is something you learn through practice, like singing or praying.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

No novels, since you just read them once and never again.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you're so impossibly close is unbearable.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

Inside the camp the we-form is singular.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

The time for eating otrach orach is over. But not the hunger, which is always greater than we are.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry. If you can't think of anything else.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

There (Kaschau) the mountains stare down through our heads until we die.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

Hunger is not a bunker or a bed frame, otherwise it could be measured. Hunger is not an object.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

You can think all kinds of things. But you can't know for sure.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

If you don't have the right things, you improvise. the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they're what you have.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

I was my own thief, the words came out of nowhere and caught me.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

I simply wanted to go to a place that didn't know who I was.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

I don't know if I can't sleep because I am trying to recall the objects, or whether I struggle to recall them because I can't sleep.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

Hunger devours nearly all the artistry.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

The world is not a costume ball

The Hunger Angel (2012)

Perhaps we had to stand so long as to stop the time in motion. Our bones became heavy as iron. When the flesh on your body disappears,your bones become a burden, and the ground pulls you down.

The Hunger Angel (2012)

Attribution

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