Frases de Bernhard Schlink
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Bernhard Schlink
Data de nascimento:6. Julho 1944
Citações Bernhard Schlink
„Penso, chego a um resultado, mantenho o resultado preso a uma decisão e faço a experiência de que a ação é uma coisa por si mesma, que pode mas não tem de seguir a decisão. Com bastante frequência no decorrer da minha vida fiz o que não tinha decidido e deixei de fazer o que tinha decidido.“
— Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
„I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.“
— Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
„Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?“
— Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
„It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?“
— Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
„Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success... whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.“
— Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
„I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.“
— Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
