Siegfried Lenz Quotes

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

He that's secure is not safe.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

If you keep hanging on to something, you've got an opportunity to keep getting hurt by it.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would come and wipe it away, and what was the point? It hurt too much every time it was ripped away and he was getting tired of losing pieces of himself. Pretty soon there wouldn't be much left, just scraps of gristle and bone without feeling. He didn't need that

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

It feels so good to be happy.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

I think comfort, stability, and love are the things that really let me be happy. Deep down inside I'm a little boring, I guess.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.