Quotes by : Adalbert Stifter

Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly....

Among the books there were also some containing bombast. They didn't try to portray Nature as it is within....

How strange it was, I thought, that when the tiny though thousandfold beauties of the Earth disappeared....

Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man....

People make themselves unhappy by desiring and praising only one thing, by becoming too one-sided in....

How great inexperience and innocence is. On the authority of their parents they go to a place where they....

On increasingly warm nice days I liked to sit toward noon on the bench encircling the cherry tree and....

Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to....

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded....

Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn't our souls....