Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Herzog.
Marriage Quotes
As for sleep, he slept on a mattress without sheets—it was his abandoned marriage bed—or in the hammock, covered by his coat. (1.3)
Friendship Quotes
His friend, his former friend, Valentine, and his wife, his ex-wife Madeleine, had spread the rumor that his sanity had collapsed. Was it true? (1.6)
Family Quotes
To his son and his daughter he was a loving but bad father. To his own parents he had been an ungrateful child. (1.27)
Love Quotes
There was a flavor of subjugation in his love for Madeleine. Since she was domineering, and since he loved her, he had to accept the flavor that was given. (1.41)
Pride Quotes
His achievements were not only scholarly but sexual. And were those achievements? It was his pride that must be satisfied. His flesh got what was left over. (1.66)
Sex Quotes
His achievements were not only scholarly but sexual. And were those achievements? It was his pride that must be satisfied. His flesh got what was left over. (1.66)
Gender Quotes
"In Argentina they'd call you macho—masculine." (1.97)
Appearances Quotes
He remembered how much pleasure it gave Madeleine to try on clothes in shops and how much heart and pride there was in her when she looked at herself, touching, adjusting, her face glowing but seve...