Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.

Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

All perishable is but an allegory.

That which issues from the heart alone,
Will bend the hearts of others to your own.

This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben
Der täglich sie erobern muß.

Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises.

Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

Leap and the net will appear.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

If you would create something,
you must be something.

Modern poets put a lot of water into their ink.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.