Heinrich von Kleist quotes

“We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.”
-- Heinrich von Kleist

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“In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.”
-- Heinrich von Kleist

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“I write only because I cannot stop.”
-- Heinrich von Kleist

Source : Heinrich Von Kleist (1982). “An Abyss Deep Enough: The Life of Heinrich Von Kleist with a Selection of Essays and Anecdotes”, Dutton Adult

#Writing Quotes

“To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.”
-- Heinrich von Kleist

Source : Heinrich Von Kleist (1982). “An Abyss Deep Enough: The Life of Heinrich Von Kleist with a Selection of Essays and Anecdotes”, Dutton Adult

#Past Quotes

“The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.179

“Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us”

Source : "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.

“If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.”

“What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.”

“Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’”

“Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.”

“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”

“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”