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 men may
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.
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.
ocean sailing storm
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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.
sarcastic sarcasm shining
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?