To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers…

- Robert Walser

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

- Robert Walser

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

- Robert Walser

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm,…

- Robert Walser

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness,…

- Robert Walser

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

- Robert Walser

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

- Robert Walser

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a pr…

- Robert Walser

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

- Robert Walser