Just trust yourself and you’ll learn the art of living.
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
We’re only really thinking when we can’t think out fully what we are really thinking about!
Colors are light’s suffering and joy.
If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we’ve crucified and burned.
It’s true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
A man’s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!