“ The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was materi… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a ve… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represe… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for the ball, how very different it all is! It is all over, all of it! There is not a hint of the world th… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
