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Top 25 Ingeborg Bachmann Quotes (2025 Update)

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “I don’t take drugs, I take books.”

1. “I don’t take drugs, I take books.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”

2. “I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “And everything stayed unsaid.”

3. “And everything stayed unsaid.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “Reading is a vice which can replace all other vices or temporarily take their place in more intensely helping people live, it is a debauchery, a consuming addiction. No, I don’t take any drugs, I take books.”

4. “Reading is a vice which can replace all other vices or temporarily take their place in more intensely helping people live, it is a debauchery, a consuming addiction. No, I don’t take any drugs, I take books.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, that’s it.”

5. “I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, that’s it.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “I have lived in Ivan and die in Malina.”

6. “I have lived in Ivan and die in Malina.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness.”

7. “What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.”

8. “For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “I can no longer see a path in any path.”

9. “I can no longer see a path in any path.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “A single tear forms, just in the corner of one eye, but it doesn’t roll down my cheek; it merely crystallizes in the cold air, it grows and grows into a second giant globe that doesn’t want to orbit with the world – it breaks off from the planet and plunges into infinity.”

10. “A single tear forms, just in the corner of one eye, but it doesn’t roll down my cheek; it merely crystallizes in the cold air, it grows and grows into a second giant globe that doesn’t want to orbit with the world – it breaks off from the planet and plunges into infinity.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “In the end he’ll find out what’s going on with me, since we still have the rest of our lives. Maybe not ahead of us, maybe just today, but we do have our lives, there’s no doubt about that.”

11. “In the end he’ll find out what’s going on with me, since we still have the rest of our lives. Maybe not ahead of us, maybe just today, but we do have our lives, there’s no doubt about that.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “Life is reading a page that you have read, or reading over your shoulder, reading with you and not forgetting, because you don’t forget anything. Life is also walking around in this void, which has space for everything.”

12. “Life is reading a page that you have read, or reading over your shoulder, reading with you and not forgetting, because you don’t forget anything. Life is also walking around in this void, which has space for everything.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “But one day I will want to know it and from that day on I will stay behind and fall back into yesterday. But it’s not tomorrow yet. Before yesterday and tomorrow arrive, I have to silence them inside me. It is today. I am here and today.”

13. “But one day I will want to know it and from that day on I will stay behind and fall back into yesterday. But it’s not tomorrow yet. Before yesterday and tomorrow arrive, I have to silence them inside me. It is today. I am here and today.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “I think of you, of the lake, of the city, of the burning days on the shore, in the sand, of the shadowy paths, of the musical breath of the air. The water is quiet, blue, I’d like to lie in a boat in the reeds, I don’t want to speak, everything around me will tell you what I’m sensing.”

14. “I think of you, of the lake, of the city, of the burning days on the shore, in the sand, of the shadowy paths, of the musical breath of the air. The water is quiet, blue, I’d like to lie in a boat in the reeds, I don’t want to speak, everything around me will tell you what I’m sensing.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “With the aid of a minute correction – that of the dispersing lens – in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.”

15. “With the aid of a minute correction – that of the dispersing lens – in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “Once one has survived something then survival itself interferes with understanding, and you don’t even know which lives came before and which is your life of today, you even mix up your own lives.”

16. “Once one has survived something then survival itself interferes with understanding, and you don’t even know which lives came before and which is your life of today, you even mix up your own lives.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “The arrogance to insist on her own unhappiness, her own loneliness, had always been in her, but only now did it venture to emerge; it blossomed, ran wild, smothered her. She was unredeemable and nobody should have the effrontery to redeem her, to know the millennium in which the red-blossoming rods that had grown inseparably entangled would spring apart and leave the path open. Come, sleep, come, thousand years, that I may be awoken by another hand.”

17. “The arrogance to insist on her own unhappiness, her own loneliness, had always been in her, but only now did it venture to emerge; it blossomed, ran wild, smothered her. She was unredeemable and nobody should have the effrontery to redeem her, to know the millennium in which the red-blossoming rods that had grown inseparably entangled would spring apart and leave the path open. Come, sleep, come, thousand years, that I may be awoken by another hand.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “What of those loving, accepting, understanding voices? Do you hear them? Or do you only hear what hurts?”

18. “What of those loving, accepting, understanding voices? Do you hear them? Or do you only hear what hurts?”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “There are people who think that Malina and I are married. We never considered that we might be married, that such a possibility could exist, nor even the idea that other people might think that we were married. For the longest time it never crossed our minds that, like other people, we appear as man and wife wherever we go. This was a complete surprise for us, but we had no idea what to make of it. We laughed a lot.”

19. “There are people who think that Malina and I are married. We never considered that we might be married, that such a possibility could exist, nor even the idea that other people might think that we were married. For the longest time it never crossed our minds that, like other people, we appear as man and wife wherever we go. This was a complete surprise for us, but we had no idea what to make of it. We laughed a lot.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “She has learned not to be nervous in rooms in which people take note of each other, weigh up, write down, write off, avoid, eye up. She doesn’t dream, she is simply at rest. Others seek peace of mind, Miranda had peace of eye.”

20. “She has learned not to be nervous in rooms in which people take note of each other, weigh up, write down, write off, avoid, eye up. She doesn’t dream, she is simply at rest. Others seek peace of mind, Miranda had peace of eye.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “I’ll worship animals in the night, I’ll lay violent hands on the holiest icons, I’ll clutch at all lies, I’ll grow bestial in my dreams and will allow myself to be slaughtered like a beast.”

21. “I’ll worship animals in the night, I’ll lay violent hands on the holiest icons, I’ll clutch at all lies, I’ll grow bestial in my dreams and will allow myself to be slaughtered like a beast.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “Ausdruck ist Wahn.”

22. “Ausdruck ist Wahn.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “My favorite, how did you put it now? Landscapes, animals, plants? Favorite what? Books, music, architecture, painting? I don’t have any favorite animals, no favorite mosquitoes, favorite beetles, favorite worms, even with the best will in the world I cannot tell you which birds or fish or predators I prefer, it would also be difficult for me to have to choose much more generally.”

23. “My favorite, how did you put it now? Landscapes, animals, plants? Favorite what? Books, music, architecture, painting? I don’t have any favorite animals, no favorite mosquitoes, favorite beetles, favorite worms, even with the best will in the world I cannot tell you which birds or fish or predators I prefer, it would also be difficult for me to have to choose much more generally.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “It’s the middle of winter, more and more snow is falling on us, and my bookcases are collapsing underneath the snow, the snow is burying them slowly, while we all await deportation, and the photographs on the bookshelf are getting wet, pictures of all the people I have loved, and I wipe away the snow and shake the photographs, but the snow keeps falling, my fingers are already numb, and I have to let the snow bury the photos.”

24. “It’s the middle of winter, more and more snow is falling on us, and my bookcases are collapsing underneath the snow, the snow is burying them slowly, while we all await deportation, and the photographs on the bookshelf are getting wet, pictures of all the people I have loved, and I wipe away the snow and shake the photographs, but the snow keeps falling, my fingers are already numb, and I have to let the snow bury the photos.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann Quote: “People don’t change very much. As long as something’s inconceivable, inexplicable or pitch black, it moves them, they go walking in the woods or rocketing into space, bringing their own world of secrets into the secrets of the world.”

25. “People don’t change very much. As long as something’s inconceivable, inexplicable or pitch black, it moves them, they go walking in the woods or rocketing into space, bringing their own world of secrets into the secrets of the world.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

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