Friedrich Hebbel > Quotes

“Sleep is death enjoyed.”
― Friedrich Hebbel

“We are as small as our joy (the sum of all ) and as big as our pain (the sum of all )
Somos tan pequeños como nuestra dicha y tan grandes como nuestro dolor”
― Christian Friedrich Hebbel

“Es ist jedenfalls besser, ein eckiges Etwas zu sein als ein rundes Nichts.”
― Christian Friedrich Hebbel

“Das Leben ist nie etwas,es ist nur die Gelegenheit zu etwas.”
― Friedrich Hebbel

“If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one.”
― Friedrich Hebbel

“Most people are good only so long as they believe others so.”
― Friedrich Hebbel

“Es gehört of mehr Mut dazu, seine Meinung zu ändern, als ihr treu zu bleiben.”
― Friedrich Hebbel

“Wenn alle übrigen Fragen abgetan sind, so wird dem Dichter von der höchsten Instanz die letzte Frage vorgelegt: ob er wahrhaft gestaltet hat. Muß er mit Nein antworten, wird er zum Tode verurteilt.”
― Friedrich Hebbel

“Tanrı bizi korur sanıyordum. Görünen o ki bizim onu korumamız gerekiyormuş.”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Judith

“Digging graves in advance is like setting death-traps.

___Maria Magdalena”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three plays

“MUTTER. Jesus! (Fällt um und stirbt.)”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Maria Magdalena

“And the first glance told me another thing,
That should there come on me a greater peril
You’d do the deed again and make it braver.
And if it has not come you bear no guilt.

___Gyges and his Ring”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three Plays

“Not for a game nor the mad pranks o’ the fool
Its metal has been welded, and perchance
There hangs on it the whole world-destiny.
Methinks ’tis given me to dare the vision
Of time’s most ancient gulfs, and see the fight
The young gods fought with the hoar gods of eld.

______Gyges and his Ring”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three Plays

“for water is
No more to me what once I felt it was,
Mild element that gives the flowers to drink,
Mother of life to all the world and me.
It thrills with shudders, brims me o’er with horror
Since its jaws oped to gulf my brother down.
Ever I think—“there’s life dwells in the drop,
But in the billow dwells the bitter death!”
To you it must be quite another.”
― Friedrich Hebbel , Three plays

“I am to make announcement that a river
Cannot be brought to judgement; and a King
Within whose land it flows with less of right
Because he did not earth it in.”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Herodes und Mariamne

“In a good play everyone is right.”
― Friedrich Hebbel

“Then do not say to me, “What would you?
He is valiant, good, and true!”
I know’t myself, nay more—would swear the same,
Yet all the more I speak my warning word:—
Be on your guard with Gyges!
______Gyges and his Ring”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three Plays

“you set
The others all to spinning, and you weave,
And lo, a net wherein no piece of cordage
Belongs to you, yet the whole thing’s your own!
______Gyges and his Ring”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three Plays

“Der Rabe dort, im Berg von Schnee und Eise,
Erstarrt und hungrig, gräbt sich tief hinab,
Und gräbt er nicht heraus den Bissen Speise,
So gräbt er, glaub ich, sich hinein ins Grab.”
― Friedrich Hebbel