Quote #101
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Friedrich von Schiller
- Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
- Every true genius is bound to be naive.
- Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
- Freedom can occur only through education.
- As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
- Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
- Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
- Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.