This Terrible Beauty Quotes

“She yearns for the simplicity of a love that is requited and uncontested, a love that sings as unfettered as a note from a violin. But the realities of the world do not allow for this.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“All these years into this interminable war, she is struck by the notion that human life is not only fleeting—a mere blink of an eye—but essentially meaningless, snatched away for no reason and given for no reason.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“anger would be so much easier to deal with than this disquieting acquiescence.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“revealing not that the individual was powerless but that he was powerful. That no matter what befell him, his spirit could not be crushed if he refused to let it be. It was magical, astounding; the narrator stands at the edge of a cliff, staring down into the roiling waters, and his heart soars with joy: like a gull gliding on the currents of the wind. Joy at having loved and having been loved. At having lost. Joy at the very fact of his existence.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“He started off so boldly that it could be confusing, and as he edited his work, he finessed his ideas and clarified his prose, sharpening and shaping and creating something of real beauty.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“the tension between the everyday reality of life for workers and intellectuals, and the dreams for the future that promise so much but are abstractions difficult to capture in writing or in a picture.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“This was not art; this was life. Real life, beautiful and ugly in equal measure.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“How can it be that you wake up in the morning, happy about the sunshine, and then by nightfall you are gone?”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“A tinge of panic, but also of possibility—of hope—began tugging at her. She was frozen, sick to her stomach. She was going to have to do something, but she had no idea what.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“Sometimes things can change in an instant because you decide to take a certain action. When we do not act, we die inside.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“The camera is a friend,” Bettina was saying to the crowd. “A reliable friend at all times. It allows you to be in dialogue, to observe, yes, but also to communicate.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty

“An education that does not awaken the youth to a sense of conscience and personal moral responsibility is not worthy of that name. —Eduard Spranger, 1947.”
― Katrin Schumann, This Terrible Beauty