"The Radetzky March" Quotes
The Radetzky March follows three generations of the Trotta family in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as they navigate the decline of their world.
fiction | 352 pages | Published in 2000
Quotes
Time has separated me from them, but it has not altered our relationship.
He didn't have to understand the world, he just had to find a way to live in it.
The only weapon against bad luck is courage.
He had never been so free, so independent, so open to everything new and strange.
The past could satisfy a man, but it could also suffocate him.
People were capable of the most amazing things; the problem was that most of them were done for the most unamazing reasons.
The most beautiful words he had ever heard were the words 'nothing is forever.'
He was never able to live for the moment, he was always compelled to live for the future.
It was only when you were forced to live with yourself that you realized how much you hated your own company.
He was not a man who was easy to understand; in fact, he was not a man at all, he was a machine.
