Karl Kraus Life Quotations

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.