Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Life

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  • No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

  • Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

    Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.269
  • Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

    "Mary Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller, II. 3. 136, June 14, 1800.
  • O God, how lovely still is life!

  • Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.

    Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.298, Delphi Classics
  • O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

  • We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

    "An die Freude", Stanza 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.
  • His saying was: live and let live.

  • O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

    Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.248
  • Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

  • Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

  • The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

    "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act III, sc. viii, 1798.
  • The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

    Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.178
  • Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

    Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn, Alexander James William Morrison (1872). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Historical dramas, etc”, p.57
  • Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

  • Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.

    Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.146
  • What is life without the radiance of love?

    "Wallenstein". Book by Friedrich Schiller translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Part II, Act IV, Scene XII), 1798.
  • I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

  • O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.

    "The Song of the Bell". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, 1799.
  • The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

  • Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

  • There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

  • The May of life blooms once and never again.

    "Resignation". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, Stanza 2, 1786.
  • Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

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