Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Life - Page 3

A useless life is an early death.

Love, Inspirational, Life

"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1786.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Life, Math, Looks

Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Mean, Nurse

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.80, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Lying, Dumb

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Heaven, Arms

"Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808.

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Numbers

"Wilhelm Meister, Philine" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Letters, Lasts

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1868). “Novels and Tales by Goethe”, p.181

From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Mountain Ranges, Dust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

Man errs as long as he strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Philosophy, Men

Faust pt. 1 "Prolog im Himmel" (1808)

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Human Life, Humans

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Age, Toil

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Art, Giving Up

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3535, Delphi Classics

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Science, Together

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Method, Earnestness

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Tree, Golden

BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.163, BookCaps Study Guides

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Morning, Destiny

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (18??). “The Works of J. W. Von Goethe”