My Century Quotes

“And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.... ”
― Günter Grass, My Century

“¿Qué quiere decir eso de paz? Para gente como nosotros, la guerra no termina jamás.”
― Günter Grass, Mi siglo

“Nos amábamos y amábamos mucho el Arte, y no fuimos obreros que tirasen piedras a los tanques. Sin embargo, desde entonces sabemos que esa lucha se reproducirá siempre. A veces, aunque con retraso de decenios, incluso ganan los que tiran piedras.”
― Günter Grass, Mi siglo

“Yet only minutes before, on the roof, a cold Havana between his lips, he had been silent, both he and his wife bundled in winter coats and hats as if about to set out on a journey. Dark against the sky. A statuesque couple. For a while the Brandenburg Gate was only a black mass, scanned off and on by police searchlights. But then the torchlight procession arrived, spreading like a stream of lava which, separated for a short time by the pylons, eventually flowed together again, unremitting, unstoppable, solemn, portentous, lighting up the night, lighting up the Gate to the quadriga of stallions, to the goddess's sign of victory. We too on the roof of Liebermann's house were lit by that fatal glow, even as we were hit with the smoke and stench of a hundred thousand and more torches.”
― Günter Grass, My Century