Ronnfaed

“The world is so waste and empty, when we figure only towns and hills and rivers in it; but to know of some one here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence,—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“Eine Rose gebrochen, ehe der Sturm sie entblättert.”
― Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Emilia Galotti

“Hesitating, at the threshold of various illusory paths of life, I considered them one by one, without daring to pursue any one of them.”
― Chateaubriand, Rene

“Ah! love is a mystery; it can only live hidden in the depths of the heart. You say, even to your friend, ‘Behold her whom I love,’ and there is an end of love.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece