Quotes from Klaus Kinski

I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul ... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Hay que ser tan viejo como la Creación, y al mismo tiempo tan joven como si aún no se hubiera nacido... Hay que entregarse, abandonarse. Hay que perderse y volverse a encontrar. Las llamas del alma no deben apagarse nunca. ¡Hay que arder sin cesar, hay que quemarse y apagarse y volverse a encender!

Ich verbrenne, so wie ich mein ganzes Leben lnag verbrannt bin. Ich weiß nicht, was das heißt.

Christus hat unsterbliches Leben geschaffen durch das, was Menschen durch ihn begriffen haben. Das ist Kunst.

Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.

ach! wüßtet ihr wie schwer es ist, wenn man gehängt ist und nicht sterben kann!!

ach, gebt mir meinen Tod, damit ich bleibe

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

Fun? There is no fun.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.