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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Destiny

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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna SWANWICK (1843). “Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller, Translated, with Introductory Remarks, by Anna Swanwick”, p.2

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.186, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.57, e-artnow

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.45, 谷月社

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (2013). “The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings”, p.63, Penguin

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.12, Courier Corporation