Georg Ebers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

  • I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

  • I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous infinite scream of nature.

  • Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

  • When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

  • If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

  • If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  • Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

  • Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

  • It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.