When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight..

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter t….

Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up ….

I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such be….

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worth….

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want ….

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences….

I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgiv….

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American ….

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to ….

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again..

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I ….

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but w….

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does..

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated..

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..

There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and d….

The more I suffer, the more I love..

Bravery is good when the cause is good..

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not beli….

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere..