Ronnfaed

“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

“There is an order
Of mortals on the earth, who do become
Old in their youth, and die ere middle age,
Without the violence of warlike death;
Some perishing of pleasure, some of study,
Some worn with toil, some of mere weariness,
Some of disease, and some insanity,
And some of wither’d or of broken hearts;
For this last is a malady which slays
More than are number’d in the lists of Fate,
Taking all shapes and bearing many names.”
― George Gordon Byron, Manfred

“It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin