The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear Quotes

“Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Life is too precious to be left to chance”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Knowledge is night!”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“I had dispensed with a rudder on the principal that fate must be given a chance.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“People always covet what they themselves do not possess.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“It's quite simple, just follow the dotted line," the Planmaker explained. "Don't let any bad idea lead you astray. Don't let them persuade you to take a short cut or take one yourself. Life is a winding path. One sometimes has to make detours. That's my humble opinion, anyway.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“That's the reward for your good deed,' I explained, 'a clear conscience. It really perks you up.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Da ist auch noch ein anderer Geruch in der Luft, der Geruch von Feuern, die in der Ferne brennen, mit einem Hauch Zimt darin - so riecht das Abenteuer!”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“There are times when the truth is the worst possible thing you can come out with.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“He wasn't such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“I know people whose lives have been transformed by a good deed.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“...I simply wasn't born to remain in the same place for evermore...”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“...but I was urged on by a courage born of despair.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“You can't beat a good education!”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Few minded what their fellow citizens got up to as long as they themselves were left in peace.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“He was the best bad idea I ever had.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“It felt as if a shaft of lightning had gone in through one ear and out the other...Armies of dead men went marching through my head. I heard a noise like a cosmic scream. My brain turned to ice. Then the ice cracked in all directions and disintegrated into tiny particles like snowflakes, and each snowflake was afflicted by a pain of its very own. In the end, everything went black. I found myself looking out into the universe. Seated on a diminutive planet made of glass was a red dwarf who had twelve important messages for me.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Das Leben ist zu kostbar um es dem Zufall zu überlassen. - Deus X. Machina”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children's laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming - the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Una buena mentira piadosa es con frecuencia mucho más excitante que una verdad. Es como si se pusiera a la verdad un vestido bonito.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“However great the challenge, it’s easier to overcome with a decent meal inside you.”
― Walter Moers, The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear