Hofmannsthal Quotes

#1. I never thought I'd be the type to cry at a wedding. And I didn't cry, per se. It must have
been allergies or something. Who the hell has a wedding in the outdoors in Spring? I mean, come
on.

N.R. Walker

#2. How we feel is how we want to be heard.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#3. Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#4. To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#5. Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

John Knox

#6. The activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#7. Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#8. Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#9. Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#10. The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#11. And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#12. I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#13. You were afraid of shooting people?"
"No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill."
How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?

Veronica Roth

#14. The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#15. Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#16. First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#17. When you speak, you must be aware of what you say, how it can be taken and who may hear it. But mostly, if you speak at all, you should know what you're talking about.

Kristen Ashley

#18. Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#19. We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#20. To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#21. The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#22. My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project.

Robert Lefkowitz

#23. You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.

Laurence J. Peter

#24. I think it's interesting that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi said that the Tea Party was dead and they weren't influential and yet they're still talking about the Tea Party.

Katie Pavlich

#25. Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal