black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Bertolt Brecht

It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Bills Hotel Pay
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Friendship Negative Trust
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Abuse Kissing Race
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Laughing News Terrible
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
BERTOLT BRECHT

Diversity Justice Struggle
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Clothes Feelings Writing
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Dark Inspirational Singing
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Discovery Reality
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Defect Men Thinking
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Peace Storm War Wind
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Going Hurry Like
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Faces Fall People
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Curves Distance Two
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Light Planning Shining
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Account Knows Science
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Hammers Mirrors

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes