Famous quotes containing the words von, place, date and/or birth:
“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.”
—Otto Von Bismarck (1815–1898)
“It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm
The flakes could find no landing place to form.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to- date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skepsis, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don’t have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)