A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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