Three plays Quotes

“Digging graves in advance is like setting death-traps.

___Maria Magdalena”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three plays

“Not for a game nor the mad pranks o’ the fool
Its metal has been welded, and perchance
There hangs on it the whole world-destiny.
Methinks ’tis given me to dare the vision
Of time’s most ancient gulfs, and see the fight
The young gods fought with the hoar gods of eld.

______Gyges and his Ring”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three Plays

“And the first glance told me another thing,
That should there come on me a greater peril
You’d do the deed again and make it braver.
And if it has not come you bear no guilt.

___Gyges and his Ring”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three Plays

“Then do not say to me, “What would you?
He is valiant, good, and true!”
I know’t myself, nay more—would swear the same,
Yet all the more I speak my warning word:—
Be on your guard with Gyges!
______Gyges and his Ring”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three Plays

“you set
The others all to spinning, and you weave,
And lo, a net wherein no piece of cordage
Belongs to you, yet the whole thing’s your own!
______Gyges and his Ring”
― Friedrich Hebbel, Three Plays

“for water is
No more to me what once I felt it was,
Mild element that gives the flowers to drink,
Mother of life to all the world and me.
It thrills with shudders, brims me o’er with horror
Since its jaws oped to gulf my brother down.
Ever I think—“there’s life dwells in the drop,
But in the billow dwells the bitter death!”
To you it must be quite another.”
― Friedrich Hebbel , Three plays