Top 6 Hugo Claus Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”

— Hugo Claus

2. “My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They’ve lived here long enough.”

— Hugo Claus

3. “We gaan zien. Wij gaan zien. Toch.”

— Hugo Claus

4. “Hoerenpraat natuurlijk, maar toch lief.”

— Hugo Claus

5. “Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.”

— Hugo Claus

6. “A twice-reflected sunlight is spreading over the wall opposite me: it is first picked up and reflected by the oval glass-in-lead window embedded in the wall, then reflected again by the zinc in slats of the awning next to it. It has no meaning; it’s just a concatenation of circumstances, and yet it thrills me.”

— Hugo Claus

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