Hermann Broch Quotes

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

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

Hermann Broch

Tags: ocean, sea

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

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

Hermann Broch

Tags: alone

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Hermann Broch (German: [bʁɔx]; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).