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Top 20 Marlen Haushofer Quotes (2026 Update)

Marlen Haushofer Quote: “External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.”

1. “External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “I knew I couldn’t go on like this, but I’d never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.”

2. “I knew I couldn’t go on like this, but I’d never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories.”

3. “Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.”

4. “I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “There is no impulse more rational than love. It makes life more bearable for the lover and the loved one.”

5. “There is no impulse more rational than love. It makes life more bearable for the lover and the loved one.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “Maybe I’m afraid that if I could do otherwise I would gradually cease to be a human being, and would soon be creeping about, dirty and stinking, emitting incomprehensible noises. Not that I’m afraid of becoming an animal. That wouldn’t be too bad, but a human being can never become just an animal; he plunges beyond, into the abyss.”

6. “Maybe I’m afraid that if I could do otherwise I would gradually cease to be a human being, and would soon be creeping about, dirty and stinking, emitting incomprehensible noises. Not that I’m afraid of becoming an animal. That wouldn’t be too bad, but a human being can never become just an animal; he plunges beyond, into the abyss.”

— Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer Quote: “The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.”

7. “The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “Sometimes my thoughts grow confused, and it is as if the forest has put down roots in me, and is thinking its old, eternal thoughts with my brain.”

8. “Sometimes my thoughts grow confused, and it is as if the forest has put down roots in me, and is thinking its old, eternal thoughts with my brain.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “I am a monster, I realised, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin. There’d be nothing wrong with that, if it weren’t for the fact that every so often the monster wants to be loved and cosseted and has to grovel, whining, back to the world of men.”

9. “I am a monster, I realised, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin. There’d be nothing wrong with that, if it weren’t for the fact that every so often the monster wants to be loved and cosseted and has to grovel, whining, back to the world of men.”

— Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer Quote: “Since I’ve been living in the forest I don’t notice myself getting older. There’s nobody there to draw my attention to it, after all. Nobody tells me how I look, and I never give it a thought myself.”

10. “Since I’ve been living in the forest I don’t notice myself getting older. There’s nobody there to draw my attention to it, after all. Nobody tells me how I look, and I never give it a thought myself.”

— Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer Quote: “I barely gave my appearance a thought. My animals didn’t care about my outer shell, they certainly didn’t love me for my appearance. They probably had no sense of beauty whatsoever; I can’t imagine that a human being would have seemed beautiful to them.”

11. “I barely gave my appearance a thought. My animals didn’t care about my outer shell, they certainly didn’t love me for my appearance. They probably had no sense of beauty whatsoever; I can’t imagine that a human being would have seemed beautiful to them.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “I know that I, like every living thing, will have to die some day, but my hands, my feet and my guts still don’t know it, which is why death seems so unreal.”

12. “I know that I, like every living thing, will have to die some day, but my hands, my feet and my guts still don’t know it, which is why death seems so unreal.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “I think time stands quite still and we move around in it, sometimes slowly and sometimes at a furious rate.”

13. “I think time stands quite still and we move around in it, sometimes slowly and sometimes at a furious rate.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “Up to a certain point one can get very used to pain.”

14. “Up to a certain point one can get very used to pain.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “It was better not to think about human beings. The great game of the sun, moon, and stars seemed to be working out, and that hadn’t been invented by humans. But it wasn’t completed yet, and might bear the seeds of failure within it.”

15. “It was better not to think about human beings. The great game of the sun, moon, and stars seemed to be working out, and that hadn’t been invented by humans. But it wasn’t completed yet, and might bear the seeds of failure within it.”

— Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer Quote: “And I was forced to do nothing and to wait, a state that I had always particularly disliked. I had waited much too often and much too long for people or events which had never turned up, or which had turned up so late that they had ceased to mean anything to me.”

16. “And I was forced to do nothing and to wait, a state that I had always particularly disliked. I had waited much too often and much too long for people or events which had never turned up, or which had turned up so late that they had ceased to mean anything to me.”

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Marlen Haushofer Quote: “Not that I’m afraid of becoming an animal. That wouldn’t be too bad, but a human being can never become just an animal; he plunges beyond, into the abyss. I don’t want this to happen to me. Recently that’s what has made me most afraid, and it is out of that fear I am writing my report. Once I’ve reached the end I shall hide it well and forget about it. I don’t want the strange thing that I might turn into to find it one day.”

17. “Not that I’m afraid of becoming an animal. That wouldn’t be too bad, but a human being can never become just an animal; he plunges beyond, into the abyss. I don’t want this to happen to me. Recently that’s what has made me most afraid, and it is out of that fear I am writing my report. Once I’ve reached the end I shall hide it well and forget about it. I don’t want the strange thing that I might turn into to find it one day.”

— Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer Quote: “One day I shall no longer exist, and no one will cut the meadow, the thickets will encroach upon it and later the forest will push as far as the wall and win back the land that man has stolen from it. Sometimes my thoughts grow confused, and it is as if the forest has put down roots in me, and is thinking its old, eternal thoughts with my brain. And the forest doesn’t want human beings to come back.”

18. “One day I shall no longer exist, and no one will cut the meadow, the thickets will encroach upon it and later the forest will push as far as the wall and win back the land that man has stolen from it. Sometimes my thoughts grow confused, and it is as if the forest has put down roots in me, and is thinking its old, eternal thoughts with my brain. And the forest doesn’t want human beings to come back.”

— Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer Quote: “I could simply forget I was a woman. Sometimes I was a child in search of strawberries, or a young man sawing wood, or, when sitting on the bench holding Pearl on my scrawny lap and watching the setting sun, I was a very old, sexless creature.”

19. “I could simply forget I was a woman. Sometimes I was a child in search of strawberries, or a young man sawing wood, or, when sitting on the bench holding Pearl on my scrawny lap and watching the setting sun, I was a very old, sexless creature.”

— Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer Quote: “Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.”

20. “Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.”

— Marlen Haushofer

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