Tauben im Gras Quotes

“Time that appeared to be standing still was racing by, and Now was a moment ago, this time of seemingly endless duration flew by, if you thought of time as the sum of all the days there had ever been, the alternation of light and dark that is given us on Earth, it was like the wind, it was both something and nothing, it could be measured if you knew how, but even then no one could explain what he was measuring, it flowed round the skin, formed a man, and fled away again, ungraspable, fled whither? whence?”
― Wolfgang Koeppen, Tauben im Gras