The Angel of History Quotes

“the silence of God is God.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

“These ruins are to the future what the past is to us”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

“Memory a wind passing through the blood trees within us”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

“The memories are few and like dreams of her life resuming a muted sound of snow    falling into itself.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

“When you are talking about stupidity, only the military knows the meaning of the    word infinite”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

“Do Americans think of us? So she began as we squatted over the toilets: If you want, I’ll tell you, but nothing I say will be enough.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

“The tanks dug ladders in the earth no one was able to climb In every war someone puts a cigarette in the corpse’s mouth And the corpse The corpse is never mentioned In the hours before his empty body was found It was this, this life that he longed for, this that he wrote of desiring, Yet this life leaves out everything for which he lived”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

“Before enduring it we will endure it.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History