Hofmannsthal Quotes & Sayings

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.' — Dave Chappelle

Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow. — Lester Wunderman

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story. — Malorie Blackman

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Poor Nico di Angelo. The god's voice was tinged with disappointment. Do you know what you want, much less what I want? My beloved Psyche risked everything in the name of Love. It was the only way for her to atone for her lack of faith. And you- what have you risked in my name?
"I've been to Tartarus and back," Nico snarled. "You don't scare me."
I scare you very, very much. Face me. Be honest. — Rick Riordan

The activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Nothing bad can happen to us if we were on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it. — Waqar Younis

How we feel is how we want to be heard. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.' — Sara Blakely

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested. — Frederick Lenz

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you. — Lilith Saintcrow

People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff ... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself. — Adam Lambert

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more. — Billy Joel

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Without sacrifice, there is no freedom. Without freedom, there is no life. God bless them who give their all for us." From Dark Rising. — Greig Beck

wir konnen warten. wissen macht frei [we can wait. knowledge liberates]. in these confident words the stalwart Ritter von Schmerling expressed the rationalistic expectations of the political process at the beginning of the liberal era in 1861.

at the end of that era, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, scion of a cultivated middle-class family, offered a different formula for political success: politics is magic. he who knows how to summon the forces from the deep, him will they follow. — Carl E. Schorske

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal