Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzerwas an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 January 1791
CountryAustria
distance flower past
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.
future yesterday today
Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
jealousy grief passion
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
tasks metaphysics empiricism
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
deception lost torture
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
goal humanity progress
How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
hands greek islam
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.
common-sense natural wit
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
honesty power people
Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.
queens power thrones
Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.
strength majesty clamor
Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.
father men cities
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
horse brave soldier
Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
desire matter coercion
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.