4 Quotes & Sayings By Ludwig Tieck

Ludwig Tieck was born in Baden, Germany, in 1773 and died in Berlin, Germany, in 1853. He was a writer and poet who wrote and translated numerous fairy tales and short stories, but is best known for the novel Der Nachlaß (The Legacy) which was based on his novel Hermann und Dorothea (Hermann and Dorothea). Tieck won the Weimar literary prize in 1811 and became a professor at the University of Berlin. He was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle in 1819.

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With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possiblybe on this side of the grave. Ludwig Tieck
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How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling? Ludwig Tieck
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Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm. Ludwig Tieck