Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Rahel Varnhagen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German writer Rahel Varnhagen.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Rahel Varnhagen

Rahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen was a German writer who hosted one of the most prominent salons in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She is the subject of a celebrated biography, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess (1957), written by Hannah Arendt. Arendt cherished Varnhagen as her "closest friend, though she ha[d] been dead for some hundred years". The asteroid 100029 Varnhagen is named in her honour.

You are never really with a person unless you are alone with him.
Every thought of God is prayer.
What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me. — © Rahel Varnhagen
What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
a mother is God's deputy on earth.
Hope for forces which you do not yet have. That is what is most impossible, and nevertheless possible.
Hope for forces which you do not yet have.
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