Body Quotes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“the activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead…

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has…

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.”

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal