Quotes from Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

The May of life blooms once and never again.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

O God, how lovely still is life!

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.