Franz Grillparzer Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Art, Perfection

• Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Death, Men

• I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Time, Moving

• Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Self, Views

• If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Art, Clay

• How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Art, Accomplishment

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