Category: Book-Quotes

  • Werther Quote

    The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradis before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harasses me. ~The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von…

  • Oh, the destiny of man!

    The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labor the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man! ~The…

  • Peter’s Denial

    Bible-Quote: While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came by. When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked closely at him. “You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus,” she said. But he denied it. “I don’t know or understand what you’re…