Adelbert Von Chamisso Quotes

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

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#2. I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

Lauren Willig

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

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#4. I follow three rules: find the opportunity to love and love endlessly, be kind to all and rude to none, and serve others with care and know that service is joy.

Debasish Mridha

#5. 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

#6. Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

Gautama Buddha

#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. History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

Stephane Hessel

#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. You need no proof, no reasons, no success, you need not achieve in fact the good of others - all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others, not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.

Ayn Rand

#13. 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

#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. Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

Dallas Willard

#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. Hipness is the only asset that matters.

Paul Saffo

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

John Mason Brown

#21. Don't just live your life, set it on fire!

Ginger Sullivan

#22. 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

#23. Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself.

Paul Valery

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

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#25. If you love somebody, tell them. If there is conflict, let it go and fight instead for peace. Break the numb false silence and break the distance too. Laugh and cry and apologize and start again. This life is short and fragile but friendship is among the greatest miracles.

Jamie Tworkowski

#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