Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Youth
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
Wahrheit und Dichtung (Poetry and Truth) pt. 2, ch. 6 (1811 - 1833)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.293, Ravenio Books
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1848). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life”, p.59