Theodor Storm famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

  • Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

  • I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that youre really not. Real love is different.

  • I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

  • Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  • I owe my solitude to other people.

  • Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

  • There are degrees and kinds of solitude. ... I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

  • Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

  • When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.