Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
Jurist
Lawyer
Librarian
Librettist
Literary
Frankfurt/Main
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Goethe
goethe
johann wolfgang von goethe
joh. wolfg. von goethe
j. w. von goethe
Without
Presence
Swiftly
Nothing
Draws
Slide
Make
Mere
Slides
Love
Magic
Haste
Life
Show
Tire
Next
Pushing
Lantern
Shows
Beloved
Tiring
Back
Draw
Lanterns

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
On every mountain height is rest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Gray is the color of all theory
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
To know where a thing is we must have found it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe