5 Quotes & Sayings By Hans Fallada

Hans Fallada (1909-1945) was one of the most important and influential German authors of the 20th century and a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature (1947). He was explicit in his autobiographical works, which were published after his death by his wife, Elisabeth. Fallada wrote six novels and four plays. The novels, which were originally written in the form of letters to his wife, describe the life of a Berlin family in postwar Germany Read more

The plays deal with contemporary problems and are set in Berlin and on a farm — thus they anticipate the themes of his later novels. Fallada was preoccupied with poverty and unemployment and he carried out detailed research into these topics. His books explore the causes and consequences of poverty and unemployment and share with them a strong vein of anti-communist sentiment.

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be...
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Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour. Hans Fallada
Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary...
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Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot. Hans Fallada
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I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done. Hans Fallada
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And so it had been going on week after week. Month after month. That was what was so discouraging, that it went on so endlessly. Hadn't he once believed that it was all over? The worst thing was that it went on. And on, and on, with no end in sight. Hans Fallada