Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Heinrich von Kleist

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug, Amphitryon and Penthesilea, and the novellas Michael Kohlhaas and The Marquise of O. Kleist died by suicide together with a close female friend who was terminally ill.

German - Novelist | October 18, 1777 - November 21, 1811

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We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.

Heinrich von Kleist

To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.

Heinrich von Kleist

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

Heinrich von Kleist

I write only because I cannot stop.

Heinrich von Kleist

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Heinrich von Kleist

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