Famous Robert Walser Quotes

  • So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.) – Robert Walser

    So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)– Robert Walser

  • I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself. – Robert Walser

    I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.– Robert Walser

  • What we understand and love understands and loves us also. – Robert Walser

    What we understand and love understands and loves us also.– Robert Walser

  • Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren’t allowed to understand anything about it. – Robert Walser

    Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren’t allowed to understand anything about it.– Robert Walser

  • One listens to the murmur of the soul only because of boredom. – Robert Walser

    One listens to the murmur of the soul only because of boredom.– Robert Walser