black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

Bertolt Brecht

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fall Hurt Rain
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fighting May People
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Founding Funny Money Robbing
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Come Late never Too
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Order Reality Representation
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Curse Poverty Wise
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Anger Dies Moral
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Living Service
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Deserve Innocent Shots
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Bank Initiative Robbery
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Men Struggle Years
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Good Knows Rapture Things
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Death Fear Life
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Defeat Sunset Victory
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Finest Spoil
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.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Government People War
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
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Declaring Running War
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Great Healthy Sports
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Dammed Easy Important
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
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
BERTOLT BRECHT

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

Bills Hotel Pay
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Embrace Hands War
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Dark Inspirational Singing

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes