Quotes from Ernst Junger

Gracias a Dios, lo más que nos puede ocurrir es que nos maten a tiros».

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other.

She would say: "But our boy is not a bad boy," to which my father retorted: "He is and always will be a good-for-nothing." Then mother would say again: "But bad he definitely is not," – because a woman must always have the last word.

Deep is the hatred that the vulgar soul feels against beauty.

Words had lost their meaning; even war was no longer war. Monteron would tum in his grave if he could hear what they called war nowadays. After all, peace was no longer peace.

Düsseldorf also looked mournful. Fresh ruins and red roof tiles bore witness to the firestorm. This too is one of the stepping-stones of Americanism; in place of our old haunts, we shall have cities that are the brain children of engineers. But perhaps only herds of sheep will graze upon the ruins, as in those old pictures of the Roman Forum.

The true measure of our worth is other people's growth in response to the power of our love.

Profonde est la haine qui brûle contre la beauté dans les cœurs abjects.

Like everything on this earth, plants want to speak to us, but understanding their language requires a clear mind.

Todo o conforto tem de ser pago. A situação do animal doméstico arrasta atrás de si a do animal de abate.

They are interested not in our solutions but in our answers.

The word is both king and conjurer.

There are eras of decline in which the form our inner life is destined to take becomes blurred. In these periods, we stagger this way and that like creatures who have lost their balance. We sink from hollow joys into dull sorrow, and a pervasive sense of loss lends the future and the past a more alluring air. And so we maunder through remote pasts or distant utopias while the present moment vanishes.

En toda amistad y en todo amor nos mostramos crueles, le robamos algo al mundo.

This is an important difference. It turns the questioning into something closer to an interrogation.

Con los rostros nos pasa como con los cuadros: aunque a menudo nos gusten a primera vista, sólo mucho más tarde reconocemos las leyes de su composición.

Al parecer se considera paradójico el que un guerrero hable de la paz. Frente a eso cabe decir que su firma es la única que otorga crédito a esa palabra. No en vano los antiguos hacían que a los tratados de paz asistiesen sus dioses nacionales de la guerra, representados por el sumo sacerdote.

No es en las horas más ruidosas cuando el Horror recorre el campo de batalla.

We bring our chips to the table and gamble for infinitely high stakes. We are like children who play for beans without knowing that each one of them contains the potential for the marvels of blossoms and May.

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.

Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history

It is easier to go into the battle in the midst of such beauties of nature than when surrounded by a dead and cold winter landscape. Somehow, it comes to one quite simply that one's existence is part of an eternal circuit, and that the death of a single individual is no great matter.

chi vuol occuparsi di orologi deve avere Tempo ma non si deve annoiare

Toutes ces filles lui paraissaient d'étranges fleurs, artificieuses, s'appliquant à attirer par une débauche de parfums et de couleurs des essaims d'insectes féconds.