The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Quotes

  • Opening caption: Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

  • Kaspar Hauser: Mother, I am so far away from everything.

  • Kaspar Hauser: What are women good for?... Can you tell me that, Katy? Women are not good for anything but sitting still!

  • Professor Daumer: Kaspar, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?

    Kaspar Hauser: It feels strong in my heart... The music feels strong in my heart... I feel so unexpectedly old...

    Professor Daumer: You've been such a short time in the world, Kaspar...

    Kaspar Hauser: Why is everything so hard for me? Why can't I play the piano like I can breathe?

    Professor Daumer: In the two short years you have been here with me, you have learned so much! The people here want to help you make up for lost time.

    Kaspar Hauser: The people are like wolves to me.

    Professor Daumer: No. You mustn't say that...

  • Kaspar Hauser: It seems to me that my coming into this world was a very hard fall.

  • Kaspar Hauser: Nothing lives less in me than my life.

Extended Reading
  • Ahmad 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    The music is very good, although it may seem strange to say that, but the Germany in the footage is the Germany in my eyes.

  • Hattie 2022-04-23 07:05:21

    The ignorant humans, the aphasiatic gods, the hypocritical civilizations are all represented with great precision, but I'm not sure whether Herzog standing behind it is more like Gaspar or the others surrounding him , tending to the original record of brushstrokes, the popular and straightforward attitude and discussion, the author's "critical" perspective that is abstracted from the world. Personally, I don't think this is the best location for the film.