One must live well to know what living is.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can make a fresh start with your final breath.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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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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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Right is its own defense.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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