Quote

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

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
Courage
Becoming
Practice
Dark
Inspirational
Dreary
Earth
Guest
Long
Guests
Dying

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe