More from Friedrich Schiller
Great souls endure in silence.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller There is no solitude in nature.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller We must bear what Heaven sends.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Don’t let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller
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Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
Lang LeavLang Leav
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
Helen KellerHelen Keller I’m pretty, but I’m not beautiful. I sin but I’m not the devil. I’m good, but I’m not an angel.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
Henry FordHenry Ford If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you’re saying praises to the devil, I say.
Bob MarleyBob Marley Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis I swear I walk with God, but the devil keeps following.
J. ColeJ. Cole I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
Stephen KingStephen King