"And those whom once my song had..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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“Wishes are premonitions of abilities.”
“if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”
“Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.”
More on Loss
“Ruin has taught me to ruminate,That Time will come and take my love away.This thought is as a death, which cannot chooseBut weep to have that which it fears to lose.”
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”
More on Sadness
“I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.”
“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .”
“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”