You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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