Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Home, Secret Love

• Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Love Is, Persist

  Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn, Alexander James William Morrison (1872). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Historical dramas, etc”, p.57

• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Beautiful, Sweet

  "The Song of the Bell". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, 1799.

• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Dust, Names

• The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Lamps, Genius

  Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.178

• The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Heart, Games

• O that it might remain eternally green,
  The beautiful time of youthful love.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Beautiful, Green

• His saying was: live and let live.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Live Life, Live And Let Live

• I have enjoyed earthly happiness,
  I have lived and loved.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Enjoyed

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Heart, Knowledge

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.269

• What is life without the radiance of love?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Love Life, Radiance

  "Wallenstein". Book by Friedrich Schiller translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Part II, Act IV, Scene XII), 1798.

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Hours, Claims

  "An die Freude", Stanza 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

• Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Sides, Sunny

  "Mary Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller, II. 3. 136, June 14, 1800.

• 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

  Life, Tools, Pleasure

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.298, Delphi Classics

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Heart, Fate

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act III, sc. viii, 1798.

• The May of life blooms once and never again.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, May

  "Resignation". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, Stanza 2, 1786.

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Arms, Lists

• 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

  Life, Ocean, Boat

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.248

• 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

  Life, Hands, Bridges

  Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.146

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Grief, Hands

• Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Women, Rose

• Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Honesty, Literature

• O God, how lovely still is life!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Lovely, Stills

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