Top 41 Friedrich Holderlin Quotes
#1. You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.
Friedrich Holderlin
#2. In the union of nature, loyalty is no dream! We part only to be more intimately at one, more divinely at peace with all, with each other. We die so as to live.
Friedrich Holderlin
#3. What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.
Friedrich Holderlin
#4. I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles lived
But there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together.
Friedrich Holderlin
#5. I paused, partly for breath, and partly because I felt I had said enough. I stood there, waiting for her reply, wishing I had a throat lozenge to suck.
P.G. Wodehouse
#6. Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.
Friedrich Holderlin
#8. Don't decide how you feel about something before you try it.
Rick Yancey
#11. What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.
Friedrich Holderlin
#13. You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.
Friedrich Holderlin
#15. I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.
David Cronenberg
#16. I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.
Friedrich Holderlin
#19. Near and hard
to grasp
Is the God.
But where danger is
Deliverance also grows
Friedrich Holderlin
#21. What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.
Friedrich Holderlin
#22. Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
Laozi
#24. Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.
Dorothy West
#25. Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)
Friedrich Holderlin
#26. Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
Hugh Jackman
#27. It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven. A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life.
Friedrich Holderlin
#28. For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#29. Close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves.
Friedrich Holderlin
#31. When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.
Mike Judge
#32. Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier?
Friedrich Holderlin
#33. Eagles live in the darkness,
And the sons of the Alps
Cross over the abyss without fear
On lightly-built bridges.
***
Growing weak on the separate mountains
Then give us calm waters;
Give us wings, and loyal minds
To cross over and return.
Friedrich Holderlin
#34. In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.
Friedrich Holderlin
#35. A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds.
John Connolly
#36. But the sower Loves to see a woman Fallen asleep in the daytime Over a half-knitted stocking.
Friedrich Holderlin
#37. And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you're desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there's the least resistance, you lash yourself.
Franz Kafka
#38. Then and Now In younger days each morning I rose with joy, To weep at nightfall; now, in my later years, Though doubting I begin my day, yet Always its end is serene and holy.
Friedrich Holderlin
#39. Only be rebellious for good reasons.
Hannah B
#41. Everything that I have known
You'll write to me to remind
Me of, and likewise I shall do
The whole past I'll recount to you
Friedrich Holderlin
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