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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Love - Page 2

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Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Two, Enough

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Hope, Pain

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.233, Delphi Classics

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Life, Magic

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Mean, Advantage

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

A useless life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Together, Crowns

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Wonderful, Form

Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Age, Toil

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Famous Love

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Glasses, Light

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Beautiful, Flower

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Self, Faults

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1858). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.197

Love can do much, but duty more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Duty, Can Do

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Spring, Heart

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Motivational, Romantic

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Two, Literature

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Kings, Son

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Faust, Part One”, p.65, Courier Corporation

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Elderly, Years

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Claims, Lays

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Way, Faces

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Love Is, Hatred

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Truth, Genius

"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 382, 1833.

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