Quotes About Holderlin

#1. You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.

Friedrich Holderlin

#2. I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles lived
But there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together.

Friedrich Holderlin

#3. Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

Friedrich Holderlin

#4. Be careful with your beak,' I chided her. She turned her shining eyes on me. 'I am careful, stupid Fitz.

Robin Hobb

#5. my incessantly syllable-excreting mind

Gunter Grass

#6. Isn't everything alive already in your blood?

Friedrich Holderlin

#7. I grew up in the arms of the gods.

Friedrich Holderlin

#8. It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#9. What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.

Friedrich Holderlin

#10. You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.

Friedrich Holderlin

#11. A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and words can change the world.

John Thomas Allen

#12. What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.

Friedrich Holderlin

#13. For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.

Friedrich Holderlin

#14. What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in two mirrors set facing one another, stretching on, replica after replica, to the vanishing point.

Margaret Atwood

#15. I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.

Friedrich Holderlin

#16. I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time ...

Jeff Probst

#17. I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.

Tim Pratt

#18. What you seek is close by and rises to meet you.

Friedrich Holderlin

#19. Near and hard
to grasp
Is the God.
But where danger is
Deliverance also grows

Friedrich Holderlin

#20. I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

Friedrich Holderlin

#21. What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.

Friedrich Holderlin

#22. It wasn't like the news delighted her, nothing like. But I saw her get a tiny tickle in the schadenfreude as she registered that this happened on Dad's watch.

Joshilyn Jackson

#23. But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Holderlin

#24. I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.

Karl Lagerfeld

#25. Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)

Friedrich Holderlin

#26. It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven. A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life.

Friedrich Holderlin

#27. Close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves.

Friedrich Holderlin

#28. Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Charles Handy

#29. Eagles live in the darkness,
And the sons of the Alps
Cross over the abyss without fear
On lightly-built bridges.
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Growing weak on the separate mountains
Then give us calm waters;
Give us wings, and loyal minds
To cross over and return.

Friedrich Holderlin

#30. In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

Friedrich Holderlin

#31. But the sower Loves to see a woman Fallen asleep in the daytime Over a half-knitted stocking.

Friedrich Holderlin

#32. Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier?

Friedrich Holderlin

#33. Then and Now In younger days each morning I rose with joy, To weep at nightfall; now, in my later years, Though doubting I begin my day, yet Always its end is serene and holy.

Friedrich Holderlin

#34. The best general is the one who never fights.

Sun Tzu

#35. The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

Anatoly Karpov

#36. Heart's wave could not curl and break beautifully into the foam of spirit, unless the ageless silent rock of destiny stood in its path.

Holderlin

#37. For the mindful god does detest untimely growth.

Friedrich Holderlin

#38. A journey to try is not worthy to start, better to love none than starting over in relationships and getting dropped like a coin that won't get tossed.

Auliq Ice

#39. Everything that I have known
You'll write to me to remind
Me of, and likewise I shall do
The whole past I'll recount to you

Friedrich Holderlin

#40. I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

Johnny Rich

#41. In the union of nature, loyalty is no dream! We part only to be more intimately at one, more divinely at peace with all, with each other. We die so as to live.

Friedrich Holderlin