A biography for Bertolt Brechthasn’t been written yet.
“מִכָּל יְצִירוֹת הָאָדָם אֲנִי אוֹהֵב אֶת אֵלֶּה שֶׁהִשְׁתַּמְּשׁוּ בָּהֶן.”
“אחרי האושר רוץ, אך לא כדאי לדהור.”
“רק מי שאינו יודע מסוגל לצחוק.”
“הצחוק הביא לי מרפא.”
“מזל היא עזרה.”
“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”
“Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.”
“He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.”
“Sometimes I see myself driving through hell with this wagon and selling brimstone. And sometimes I’m driving through heaven handing our provisions to wandering souls! If only we could find a place where there’s no shooting, me and my children—what’s left of ‘em—we might rest a while.”
“Right is its own defense.”
“Temptation to behave is terrible.”
“The war which is comingIs not the first one. There wereOther wars before it.When the last one came to an endThere were conquerors and conquered.Among the conquered the common peopleStarved. Among the conquerorsThe common people starved too.”
“The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.”
“Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.”
“We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought.”
“To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.”
“Why be a man when you can be a success?”
“What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.”
“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”
“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”