Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Care has nested in the heart's depths, Restless, she rocks there, spoiling joy and rest, [645] There she works her secret pain, And wears new masks, ever and again, Appears

Girls are always so keen to review [3525] Whether one's virtuous, and sticks to the rules. They think if a man can be led, he'll follow too.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

You're growling, poodle! Animal squealings 1230 Hardly suit the exalted feelings Filling my soul to overflowing. We're used to people ridiculing What they hardly understand, Grumbling at the good and the beautiful— It makes them so uncomfortable! Do dogs now emulate mankind?

The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind!

Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer nah.

Bu durumda olan yaln?zca ben de?ilim. Bütün insanlar umutlar?nda kand?r?l?yor, beklentilerinde aldat?l?yorlar.

Y así continúo corriendo tras esta vaga sombra, hasta que me conduce al borde del abismo, donde me detengo con espanto.

In the same way, the most restless of travellers ends up pining for his homeland once again, and discovers in his cottage, in the arms of his wife and amidst his children, and in the labours that are necessary to support them, that joy he sought in vain in the wide world.

Nothing distresses me more than to see men torment each other; particularly when in the flower of their age, in the very season of pleasure, they waste their few short days of sunshine in quarrels and disputes, and only perceive their error when it is too late to repair it.

Never trembling at that void where, Imagination damns itself to pain, [715] Striving towards the passage there, Round whose mouth all Hell's fires flame: Choose to take that step, happy to go Where danger lies, where Nothingness may flow.

But I've got you, you're caught! For a half-hellhound like you are, Solomon's Key is what is called for.

I know of enough cases in which a close and, as it seemed, indissoluble relationship was annulled by the casual arrival of a third party, and one of the pair, previously joined so beautifully, driven out into empty space.

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

Left to itself every literature will exhaust its vitality, if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign one. What naturalist does not take pleasure in the wonderful things that he sees produced by reflection in a mirror? Now what a mirror in the field of ideas and morals means, everyone has experienced in himself, and once his attention is aroused, he will understand how much of his education he owes to it.

Siento tantas cosas..., y mi pasión por ella lo devora todo! ¡Tantas cosas! . . . ¡Y sin ella todo se reduce a nada!

Age doesn't make us childish, as they say, It finds that we're still children.

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.

Es que tenía que ser así, que lo que hace la felicidad del hombre sea también la fuente de su desdicha?

Estará escrito en el destino del hombre que sólo puede ser feliz antes de tener razón o después de haberla perdido? ¡Pobre insensato! Envidio tu locura, envidio el laberinto mental en que te pierdes.

A?açlar?n sarar?p dökülen yapraklar? gibi, benim de ya?ant?m sarar?p dökülüyor.

Una palabra sensata se atrofia en un oído duro.

No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.