“What is life without the radiance of love?”

— Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein, 1798, Wallensteins Tod, Act IV, sc. xii

About Friedrich Schiller

1759 – 1805

German poet, playwright and philosopher, author of "The Robbers" and "Ode to Joy".

“A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.”

“I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery.”

“All men become brothers where thy happy wing-beats are.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.”

“If I can stop one Heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

“Wealth cannot make a life, but love.”

“Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it.”

“He who loves God is also able to accept life and to love it.”