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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENight is the other half of life, and the better half.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
-
-
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE