Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen.

I heard nothing, but ever more clearly as the light of the half-moon grew sharper, I thought I could make out a dark shape, and soon, as it came nearer, I saw it. It sat on a horse, a high-boned, haggard white horse. A dark mantle fluttered across the figure’s shoulders, and as he flew past, two burning eyes stared at me out of a pale face.

Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!” schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen.

Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.

Even today [in the narrator's time], an ancient lime tree can be seen here at the edge of the river valley; in spite of its completely hollow trunk its huge crown still sways in the wind. Here at that time the handsome couple would often be seen standing by it, hand in hand, looking out over the wide river valley while the summer wind blew through their blond hair, and in the evenings too when the cry of the wild swans could be heard as they flew down onto the water in the starlight.

Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.

Dem Sokrates gaben sie ein Gift zu trinken, und unseren Herrn Christus schlugen sie an das Kreuz! Das geht in den letzten Zeiten nicht mehr so leicht; aber - einen Gewaltsmenschen oder einen bösen stiernackigen Pfaffen zum Heiligen oder einen tüchtigen Kerl, nur weil er uns um Kopfeslänge überwachsen war, zum Spuk und Nachtgespenst zu machen - das geht noch alle Tage.

Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen

[She was] a strange butterfly which had flown across his garden and which his eyes had continued to follow long after it had disappeared from sight.

Ich möchte schlafen, aber du mußt tanzen."[Hyazinthen]