Seume Johann Quotes & Sayings

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. — Johann Gottfried Seume

The one thing you learn from constantly having your life in danger is that you'd better not waste it. Even Marcus had admitted that in the arcade. — Richelle Mead

In the river meadows, alders, brambles and wild vines formed a magical jungle, dappled with shimmering, greenish light and spangled with twirling forest particles. Marshy pools lay sparkling among the elderberries and leaning beeches. — Nina George

She felt that the diving image of Mme Stahl that she had carried in her soul for a whole month had vanished irretrievably ... And by no effort of imagination could she bring back the former Mme Stahl. — Leo Tolstoy

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. — Johann G. Seume

If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds. — Jon Ronson

Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds. — Steven Franssen

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times. — Johann Gottfried Seume

Music is the key to the female heart. — Johann G. Seume

Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand. — L. Neil Smith

I did not have a homosexual relationship with a man in Denver. — Ted Haggard

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. — Johann G. Seume

True love always happens in a flash. — Stephen King

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. — Robert Moog

People should always have something which they prefer to life. — Johann G. Seume

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. — Johann G. Seume

The objective world is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling along the lifeline of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time. — Hermann Weyl

A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely, this was enough. But a prayer is about our relationship to God; a blessing is about our relationship to the spark of God in one another. God may not need our attention as badly as the person next to us on the bus or behind us in line in the supermarket. Everyone in the world matters, and so do their blessings. When we bless others, we offer them refuge from an indifferent world. — Rachel Naomi Remen

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow. — Johann Gottfried Seume

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being. — Franz Kafka