Heinrich Kleist Quotes

#1. The kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded

Heinrich Von Kleist

#2. Misconceptions are unavoidable now that we've eaten of the Tree of Knowledge. But Paradise is locked and bolted, and the cherubim stands behind us. We have to go on and make the journey round the world to see if it is perhaps open somewhere at the back.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#3. To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#4. Contextualized gospel ministry should affirm the beliefs of the culture wherever it can be done with integrity.

Timothy Keller

#5. What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor E. Frankl

Glennon Doyle Melton

#6. Everything at a distance turns into
poetry; distant mountains, distant
people, distant events; all become
Romantic.

Novalis

#7. I'm not accepting of whiners.

Tom Watson

#8. The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

Felix J. Palma

#9. I write only because I cannot stop.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#10. A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

Neal Stephenson

#11. He [Pigpen] appears too damn happy and that causes a wave of uneasiness.

Katie McGarry

#12. But paradise is locked and bolted ...
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#13. Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer.

Nicholas Tucker

#14. Does that mean", I said in some bewilderment, "that we must eat again of the tree of knowledge in order to return to the state of innocence?"
"Of course", he said, "but that's the final chapter in the history of the world.

Heinrich Von Kleist