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
life self views
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.
life art shapes
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
life art accomplishment
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
life time moving
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.
life death men
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
children hypocrisy hard-life
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.
life art perfection
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
claimed difference mistake mistakes three
Every mistake has three stages: first, it is made, second, it is not admitted, and third, its claimed it didnt make any difference anyway.
converts half oh wisdom
Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
speed slow-down bits
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
grieving austria may
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
world fossils bones
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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.
dangerous-situations apathy temper
The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.