Quote

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

Karl Kraus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
Pens
Fate
Happen
Happens
Remember
Nothing
Take

More quotes by Karl Kraus

Image
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
Karl Kraus
Image
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
Karl Kraus
Image
If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
Karl Kraus
Image
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
Karl Kraus
Image
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
Karl Kraus
Image
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
Karl Kraus
Image
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
Karl Kraus
Image
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Karl Kraus
Image
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
Karl Kraus
Image
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Karl Kraus
Image
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus
Image
Talent is often a defect in character.
Karl Kraus
Image
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
Karl Kraus
Image
In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
Karl Kraus
Image
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
Karl Kraus
Image
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
Karl Kraus
Image
Medicine: Your money and your life!
Karl Kraus
Image
A cigar, said the altruist, a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around mine is always lit.
Karl Kraus
Image
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
Karl Kraus
Image
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
Karl Kraus