Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

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Playwright · German · 1759–1805

German playwright (1759–1805)

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“Pain is short, and joy is eternal.”
— Friedrich Schiller

“Life is only error,And death is knowledge.”
— Friedrich Schiller

“What are hopes, what are plans?”
— Friedrich Schiller

“Don't let your heart depend on thingsThat ornament life in a fleeting way!He who possesses, let him learn to lose,He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.”
— Friedrich Schiller

“On the mountains there is freedom!The world is perfect everywhere,Save where man comes with his torment.”
— Friedrich Schiller

“Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.”
— Friedrich Schiller

“Der Menscheit Würde ist in Eure Hand gegeben, bewahret Sie! Sie sinkt mit euch! Mit euch wird sie sich heben!”
— Friedrich Schiller

“Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! Loitering slow, the Future creepeth — Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth — And motionless forever stands the Past.”
— Friedrich Schiller