Adelbert Quotes

#1. Trust me? I held my breath for her answer. She had every reason not to trust me. I'd been her kidnapper, her captor, yet I'd rather have died than hurt a single hair on her head.

Alex Flinn

#2. My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#3. Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me ... I'm tired of trying to be someone other than who I am.

T. Scott McLeod

#4. That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca's experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

Frances Hardinge

#5. You undress a woman in the same way that you would open a magic box sealed by an angel's kiss.

Chloe Thurlow

#6. I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#7. Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#8. A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#9. The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. In pain is a new time born.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#11. Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#12. My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#13. This is you. She pointed at the stick figure with enormous red curly marks and blue eyes.
Did my hair really look like that? I ran a hand over my head, feeling a bit like Little Orphan Annie.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#15. I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Guillaume Apollinaire

#16. I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#17. Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#18. My Brain is the key that sets me free.

Harry Houdini

#19. Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

Louise Bogan

#20. On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#21. No longer can democracy and freedom be fully and truly secure in one country, or even in a group of countries; their defence in a world saturated with injustice and inhabited by billions of humans denied human dignity will inevitably corrupt the very values they are meant to defend.

Zygmunt Bauman

#22. All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#23. We were happy. We deserved to be happy. We would remain happy for the rest of our lives. Because I had my monster. And he had me. And together, we had everything.

Pepper Winters

#24. After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#25. What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#26. When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#27. The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#28. This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#29. I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

Adelbert Von Chamisso