Franz Grillparzer Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Future, Past, Cradle

• As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Past, Adults, Youth

• Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

  Franz Grillparzer

  Reading, Hero, Heart

• Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Truth, Past, Yesterday

• Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Distance, Flower, Past

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