Ludwig Tieck Quotes

Germany, Poet
May 31, 1773 – April, 28, 1853.

Johann Ludwig Tieck (31 May 1773 – 28 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Also known as Writer, Translator, Critic

Wer keine Blume mehr liebt, dem ist alle Liebe und Gottesfurcht verloren.

Ludwig Tieck
Das wahrhaft Schöne, Große und Erhabene, so wie es uns in Erstaunen und Verwunderung setzt, überrascht uns doch nicht als etwas Fremdes, Unerhörtes und Niegesehenes, sondern unser eigenstes Wesen wird uns in solchen Augenblicken klar, unsre tiefsten Erinnerungen werden erweckt, und unsre nächsten Empfindungen lebendig gemacht.

Ludwig Tieck

Die Liebe wintert nicht;Nein! nein!Ist und bleibt Fruhlingesschein.

Ludwig Tieck
- Die
Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

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- Lost
- Moment
- Destiny
Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.

Ludwig Tieck
- Time
- Hand
- Cold
Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.

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- Love
- Knows
- Spring
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

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- Life
- High
- Dead
He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

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- Wisdom
- Stupid
- Act

The noble man is only God's image.

Ludwig Tieck
- God
- Gods
- Image