A Happy Man Quotes

“His shadow stretched out across the asphalt, a man on his way to make good an old wrong, his shadow, the dark doppelganger with stilts for legs, sliced in two by the streetcar tracks.”
― Hansjorg Schertenleib, A Happy Man

“Shriveled apple cores stood side by side on the window sill, a long row of them with their seed chambers bitten open and the pointed sees scattered on the floor. The brown, discolored remnants of their flesh bore the imprint of his grandfather's teeth. That was the image This was left with, the one that ever since was the first to recur when he thought of his dead grandfather: shriveled apple cores on the sill of a window that looked out onto an overgrown garden.”
― Hansjorg Schertenleib, A Happy Man

“What could be worse than another person's happiness? Not that his unhappiness would make us happy, but we need it in order to bear our own.”
― Hansjorg Schertenleib, A Happy Man