Quotes from Hölderlin

Nichts lässt die Erde mit größerer Sicherheit zur Hölle werden, als der Versuch des Menschen, sie seinem Himmel zu machen.

Heart's wave could not curl and break beautifully into the foam of spirit, unless the ageless silent rock of destiny stood in its path.

close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves.

Denn sie, die uns das himmlische Feuer leihen, die Götter, schenken heiliges Leid uns auch.

What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.

You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.