Quotes by : E.T.A. Hoffmann

We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,'....

Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some....

Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race....

There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must....

It was obvious from their expressions that they believed the wellbeing of R.’s inhabitants was endangered....

I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless....

If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast....