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
love passion men
A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
freedom radicalism masturbation
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
ignorance healing stupidity
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
trying crime burying
Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.
love death dying
A love that dies has never lived.
nature science hermeneutics
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
boys ideas doubt
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
travel home knowledge
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
women rigidity disgusting
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
women rome bed
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
distance perspective criticism
You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.
food office giving
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
loneliness excellence property
Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.
plato loneliness complacency
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.