Hermann Broch's Quotes

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Each time that I have two or three days off, I'm off somewhere in California.

I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.'

I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.

In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.

It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.

Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.

In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!