Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Past, Forever, Stills

• Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Past, Arrows, Forever

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.237

• Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
  To the eternal sun, I render back
  These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Pain, Struggle

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.435

• History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Past, Space, History

• Like a dart the present glances,
  Silent stands the past sublime.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Past, Sublime

  Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.259

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