Gérard de Nerval Quote

God is dead! Heaven is empty—Weep, children, you no longer have a father.


Les Chimères (1854) 'Le Christ aux Oliviers' epigraph (summarizing a passage in Jean Paul's Blumen-Frucht-und Dornstücke (1796–7) in which God's children are referred to as 'orphans')


God is dead! Heaven is empty—Weep, children, you no longer have a father.

God is dead! Heaven is empty—Weep, children, you no longer have a father.

God is dead! Heaven is empty—Weep, children, you no longer have a father.

God is dead! Heaven is empty—Weep, children, you no longer have a father.