Quotes by Hermann Broch

• The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
• What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
• Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
• No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.