Unica Zürn QUOTES

1 " Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule. "

2 " It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: 'there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress - what did I know - until now? "

― Unica Zürn

3 " Die Freiheit von der Hoffnung ist die vollkommene Freiheit.

The freedom of the hope is complete freedom. "

― Unica Zürn , The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

4 " How good I would feel if I could be something that called itself neither man nor woman. "

― Unica Zürn , The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

5 " What terrible shame overcomes me when I discover the male or female in myself! "

― Unica Zürn , The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

6 " They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood by no one but the two of them. "

― Unica Zürn , Dark Spring

7 " As if one was mistaken in believing that love protects life. As if it were a lie that love is a blessing. "

― Unica Zürn

8 " Large shapes — like wings — float up to her, opening and closing — gently at first — until they slowly fill the room and she has the impression that she is in the presence of apparitions which are not at all related to this world. None of her acquaintances has ever mentioned similar apparitions to her. These beings — she can not describe them in any other way, reveal that they have the clear and frightening intention of encircling her. They exude a feeling of dissipation, of annihilation, and her forgotten childhood fear of the horrible and inexplicable returns to her. Whenever these birdless, greyish-black wings fly up too close to her, she raises her hand in a sudden anxiety and fends them off. They retreat for a moment into the background of the dark room, then approach once again, and slowly she gets used to this strange presence until she notices that the wings are insubstantial and can fly straight through her upright body, as if she herself had become bodiless. This both entrances and appalls her. Looking at them carefully, these creatures have in fact nothing terrifying about them — they lack eyes and faces, and they radiate an enormous dignity, an uncanny seriousness, something very noble. "

― Unica Zürn , The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

9 " But how long must she sing in the darkness until she is at last allowed out into the light of day? "

― Unica Zürn , The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

10 " When he actually comes, he brings her a book containing white paper, as if it were a sign of her salvation, and she reads a dedication--something about people who have lost hope but start to swim in the whiteness of these leaves and perhaps find a new beginning with their first pen stroke. "

― Unica Zürn , The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

11 " Your skin was song. Your advice was:see. "

― Unica Zürn , The Trumpets of Jericho

12 " Umuttan kurtuluş tam bir özgürlük demektir "

― Unica Zürn

13 " Yabancı bir toprakta ölmek - bunu bir yerde okumuştu ve hiç unutmamıştı. Ah! Bir akşam olsa! Ama kuşlar hala şakıyor ve güneş batmak istemiyor. Yalnızca hava karanlıkken ölümle yüzyüze gelme cesaretinin olacağını biliyor.
Pencere kenarına çıkıyor, kanadın kirişine tutunuyor ve son bir kez daha aynadaki gölge gibi yansımasına bakıyor. Kendisini sevimli buluyor. Kararlılığına bir parça pişmanlık karışıyor. "İşte bitti" diyor sessizce ve ayağı daha pencere kenarından ayrılmadan öldüğünü hissediyor. "

― Unica Zürn , Dark Spring

14 " En todos sus juegos dominan el horror y el peligro. Ellas se entregan sin reservas al drama. La vida monótona y protegida de la familia resulta aburrida, y todo está permitido con tal de mantener la emoción. La vida, sin la desgracia, es insoportable. "

― Unica Zürn , Dark Spring

15 " Ich beklage mich bitter darüber, dass Liebe und Hass so dicht beieinander liegen. Ach, ich beklage es, dass man nie wirklich weiß, ob man gehasst oder geliebt wird "

― Unica Zürn , The House of Illnesses