Quotes from book

The Glass Bees

“Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”

Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“I had always been man enough to ruin myself without help.”

Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.”

Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.”

Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.”

Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.”

Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)