Heinrich Von Kleist Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.

Jerry Brown

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

Heinrich Von Kleist

#4. I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

Terry McMillan

#5. The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.

Monika Ramzy

#6. 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

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

Heinrich Von Kleist

#8. On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think.

Phil LaMarr

#9. Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
[Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

George Herbert

#10. Relationship Principle 5
Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.

Sherry Argov

#11. I write only because I cannot stop.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#12. I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?

Catherynne M Valente

#13. Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

Bill Bright

#14. 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

#15. One scrawny straggler, inching its way toward me like a tiger focused on prey. I must have looked incredibly savory, for it ignored the beaming lights blinding its searing red eyes and headed right toward me. For a half-starved beast, it was incredibly fast, its body looking bony and malnourished.

Alexia Purdy

#16. 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