Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

way-toward-border-innermost-secret-draws-around-line-would-selfdestruction

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.

Christa Wolf's Popular Quotes

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

- Christa Wolf

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

- Christa Wolf

The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

- Christa Wolf

When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

- Christa Wolf

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

- Christa Wolf

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

- Christa Wolf

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

- Christa Wolf

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

- Christa Wolf

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruct…

- Christa Wolf