That is how people are: a shared fear brings them together more easily than a shared love.

Hans Fallada

Good intentions are not yet good deeds.

Hans Fallada

Those who live will live to see.

Hans Fallada

When one is young, one considers youth a fault. Only later does one discover that youth is a gift.

Hans Fallada

Better to curse loudly than to lie quietly.

Hans Fallada

Monday follows close on the heels of every Sunday.

Hans Fallada

Hans Fallada; edited by Erika Becker and Werner Sagner; illustrations by Jutta Mirtschin: Sehnsucht ist besser als Erfüllung. Lebensweisheiten und Aphorismen von Hans Fallada. Berlin: Steffen Verlag, 2016.