Georg Trakl Quotes

#1. When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#2. The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

Georg Trakl

#3. We need to let God get down underneath what we think needs changing, so that He can bring full restoration and redemption to us where we truly need changing.

Matt Chandler

#4. The guilt of newborns is immense.

Georg Trakl

#5. when knowledge is available, belief is unnecessary. There is no religious belief expressed because wisdom is superior

Amanda Valiant

#6. I try not to look back too much, but sometimes it's nice to reflect.

McCoy Tyner

#7. Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

David Frum

#8. Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

Georg Trakl

#9. The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

Georg Trakl

#10. Where do you run for help? When you are in trouble, what is your first instinct? Do you run to others or to God? Is it usually the counsel of another rather than the counsel found in waiting upon God in prayer? Why is this the way it is? Why do we run to man before we run to God?

Kay Arthur

#11. Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

Georg Trakl

#12. A whore who with icy shudders gives birth to a small dead child.

Georg Trakl

#13. Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

Georg Trakl

#14. When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

Georg Trakl

#15. The thrush called strangeness into the sunset.

Georg Trakl

#16. Your body is a hyacinth,
Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers.
Our silence is a black cavern,
From which a soft animal steps at times
And slowly lowers heavy eyelids.
On your temples black dew drips,
The last gold of expired stars

Georg Trakl

#17. The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.

Ravi Zacharias

#18. I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Georg Trakl

#19. There is not enough air in the room for Marianne and Elizabeth to share. They have learned this the hard way, but acceptance of the fact has made life easier. Now they see each other twice a year, for a weekend in the early summer and for the American holiday of Thanksgiving

Jessica Shattuck

#20. In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.

Raymond Kelly

#21. Cold metal walks across my forehead,
spiders search for my heart.
It is a light that goes out in my mouth ...

Georg Trakl

#22. Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

Georg Trakl

#23. For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

Georg Trakl