Alle Dinge / All Things Dinge / Things Ebenfalls / Also Endet / Ends Fluss / Flux Gefährlich / Hazardous Gegenstand / Subject Leben / Life Leise / Silent Mensch / Human Nur / Merely Tod / Death Vollständigkeit / Completeness Welche / Which
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.
