My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same ti…

- Herta Muller

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

- Herta Muller

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

- Herta Muller

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

- Herta Muller

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

- Herta Muller

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

- Herta Muller

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

- Herta Muller

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

- Herta Muller

Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable…

- Herta Muller