Quotes by Franz Grillparzer
She sought her happiness exclusively in the happiness of others. Death gave her her own.
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its co...
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Cons...
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
A love that dies has never lived.
But when all you do, great man, is to empty our pockets, we wish that you were smaller!
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already b...
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connois...
