Joseph Roth Quotes

• Only the small things in life are important

  Joseph Roth

  Things In Life, Important, Small Things In Life

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• That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.

  Joseph Roth

  Memories, Long, People

  Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.94, The Overlook Press

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• No soy un bis, ni un pudin, soy el plato principal.

  Joseph Roth

  Pudding, Dishes, Encores

  Joseph Roth (2012). “Joseph Roth”, p.39, Granta Books

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• Creo que mis observaciones siempre me han llevado a encontrar que el llamado realista se mueve por el mundo con una mente cerrada, anillada como si fuera de hormigón y cemento, y que el llamado romántico es como un jardín sin vallar dentro y fuera del cual la verdad puede vagar a voluntad.

  Joseph Roth

  Believe, Moving, Garden

  Joseph Roth (2002). “The Emperor's Tomb”, p.47, The Overlook Press

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• A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

  Joseph Roth

  Book, World, Written

  Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.206, The Overlook Press

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• Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96

  Joseph Roth

  Jobs, World, Pay

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• A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

  Joseph Roth

  Moving, Taken, Mean

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• La escalera mecánica me parece que tipifica esto: Nos lleva hacia arriba, subiendo por nosotros. Sí, ni siquiera sube, sino que vuela. Cada peldaño lleva en volandas al comprador, como si temiera que cambiara de opinión. Nos lleva hasta mercancías por las que no nos habríamos molestado en subir un tramo ordinario de escaleras.

  Joseph Roth

  Climbing, Mind, Might

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• There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

  Joseph Roth

  Fear Of Death, Certain, Voluptuous

  Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.149, The Overlook Press

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• That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.

  Joseph Roth

  Accessories, Furniture, Found

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• Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.

  Joseph Roth

  Lying, Communication, Expression

  Joseph Roth (2002). “What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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