Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Heinrich von Kleist

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German novelist Heinrich von Kleist.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Heinrich von Kleist

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.

We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open. — © Heinrich von Kleist
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.
To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.
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.
I write only because I cannot stop.
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