Quote of Novalis - Light had its allotted time; but...
Biography - Novalis:
Novalis pen name of Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg. German poet, author, mystic and philosopher.
Born: 1772 - Died: 1801
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1772 - Died: 1801
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: sleep
Quotes about time:
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Quotes about eternity:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Quotes about light:
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Quotes for: night
As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Quotes about space:
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
The infinitely smallest part of space is always a space, something endowed with continuity, not at all a mere point or the boundary between specified places in space.
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