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. The roles could have easily been reversed. I wondered how God had chosen me to be born into such luxury when this little girl had been born into such hopelessness.

Katie J. Davis

#3. 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

#4. We are on Our way, but where it will End nobody Know.

Jan Jansen

#5. The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean ... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

Truman Capote

#6. 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

#7. If you are grading your own test, will you pass every time!

Be careful of your self-perception because it could deceive you.

Marion Hill

#8. The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

Anne Tyler

#9. We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance ... all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.

Marissa Meyer

#10. Thy life's journey lies along its own path, Ian," she said, "and I cannot share thy journey - but I can walk beside thee. And I will.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

#12. I write only because I cannot stop.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#13. I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

Lady Bird Johnson

#14. Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

Adrian Grenier

#15. Perhaps when a nation goes through a period of upheaval, those who should become politicians, do.

Minae Mizumura

#16. You are a sick freak who should be beaten.

Daniel Tosh

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

Heinrich Von Kleist

#18. 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

#19. As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!

Joseph John Thomson

#21. At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

Gertrude Stein

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

Henrich Von Kleist

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

Heinrich Von Kleist

#24. I didn't plan on running for speaker, but I don't see anyone else stepping up. I know I'm the underdog.

Jason Chaffetz