22 Quotes by Adelbert von Chamisso

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

In pain is a new time born.

In pain a new time is born.

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day – remember, on the fourth day – my daughter becomes the wife of another.