Роберт Вальзер цитаты

„Кто не умеет отказываться, тому не испытать глубокого наслаждения.“

—  Роберт Вальзер

„Все женщины заслуживают комплиментов. В каждой женщине есть что-то благородное. Я видел, как прачки двигаются, как королевы.“

—  Роберт Вальзер

„With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.“

—  Robert Walser, книга Jakob von Gunten

Источник: Jakob von Gunten

„That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.“

—  Robert Walser, книга Jakob von Gunten

Источник: Jakob von Gunten

„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.“

—  Robert Walser

Источник: The Tanners

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

—  Robert Walser

„One is always half mad when one is shy of people.“

—  Robert Walser, книга Jakob von Gunten

Источник: Jakob von Gunten

„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“

—  Robert Walser

Источник: Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by 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, it’s easy to stay silent.“

—  Robert Walser

Источник: Masquerade and Other Stories

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

—  Robert Walser