Brigitta and Other Tales Quotes

“Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before.”
― Adalbert Stifter, Brigitta, With Abdias, Limestone & The Forest Path

“How great inexperience and innocence is. On the authority of their parents they go to a place where they could meet their death; for the Zirder in flood is very dangerous and, given the ignorance of the children, can be incalculably dangerous. But they know nothing of death. Even if they speak its name, they do not know its essence and their aspiring life has no feeling for annihilation. If they were on the brink of death themselves, they would not know it and they would die before they found it out.”
― Adalbert Stifter, Brigitta, With Abdias, Limestone & The Forest Path