black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Berthold Auerbach

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Modern Window
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Gratitude Joy Soil
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Lying Mind People
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Companion Healing Solitude
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Age Men Retains Silver
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Dust Practice Soul
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Accustomed Bed Easier
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Anger Men Person Weak
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Hands Hats World
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Lightning Looks
The world is the same everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Everywhere Work World
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Alone Belief Firm
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Berthold Auerbach Quotes