Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German author Wolfgang Hildesheimer.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer was a German author who incorporated the Theatre of the Absurd. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing.

German - Author | December 9, 1916 - August 21, 1991

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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

Wolfgang Hildesheimer