Johann Ludwig Tieck Quotes

#1. Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

#2. Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

#3. How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?

Johann Ludwig Tieck

#4. Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

#5. He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

#6. Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

#7. With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possibly
be on this side of the grave.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

#8. He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God.

Johann Ludwig Tieck