Peter Handke Quotes

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

We all know how to be a child.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

For nature then to me was all in all.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.

Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

In the sun I feel as one.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.