Vicki Baum
Vicki Baum
HedwigBaumwas an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel, one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 broadway musical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 January 1888
CountryUnited States of America
Vicki Baum quotes about
lonely loneliness being-alone
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
loss filling-up lasts
Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...
loyalty giving-up food
the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.
night men worry
Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.
feelings pity
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
next comes-and-goes
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
tired secret infidelity
I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.