Quotes by Robert Walser

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, and their death.

Misery

Suffering

Weakness

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

Cities

Sensitive Person

Wall

How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance

Clouds

Light

Tired

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

Interesting

Interesting Things

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

Mad

Writing

I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it?

And Love

Pride

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 present, you forget to even think about the future.

Forget

Thinking

Want

I’d like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it’s quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don’t fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.

Blood

Pain

Smart

It doesn’t take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you must have felt, honestly and simply, what love is and how love likes to behave.

Likes

Love Is

Praise

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

Feelings

Missing

Sadness

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And Love

Answers

Beautiful

Blood

Book

Cities

Clouds

Damage

Delight

Facts

Falling In Love

Feelings

Forget

Given

Has Beens

Ideas

Interesting

Interesting Things

Light

Likes

Loneliness

Love Is

Lovely

Lovely Things

Lying

Mad

Misery

Missing

Mouths

Moving

One Day

Pain

People

Praise

Pride

Realizing

Sadness

Senselessness

Sensitive Person

Shy

Smart

Stories

Strange

Suffering

Thinking

Tired

Today

Torn Apart

Wall

Want

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Quotes by Robert Walser

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, and their death.

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

How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

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

I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it?

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 present, you forget to even think about the future.

It doesn’t take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you must have felt, honestly and simply, what love is and how love likes to behave.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

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