Swiss Author Quotes

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Max Frisch

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Johanna Spyri

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Robert Walser (writer)

Erich von Däniken

She knows what she sees. She has her eyes in the right place.

I shall be told, I know, that Mathematics render the attention peculiarly close (appliquee); but they do not habituate to collect, to appreciate, to concentrate; the attention they require is, so to speak, in a straight line; the human mind acts in mathematics as a spring tending in one uniform direction.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially

Erich von Däniken

Our researches are perilous, our discoveries are lethal. For us physicists there is nothing left but to surrender to reality.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Work is motion, but our own. We have the fatal possibility to emulate another, for example a mill-wheel.

Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives, at work or in government - we might experience a leap in prosperity. We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality.

The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

In my sleep, which is the song of the tombs, I have just seen her again, as beautiful as in her youth.

Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another's loneliness strange.

Robert Walser (writer)

We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?

Johann Martin Usteri

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz