"We lay aside letters never to read..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.”
“Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.”
“In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.”
More on Memory
More on Loss
“Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.”
“How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?”
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.”