Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

  • Everything transitory is but an image. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Everything transitory is but an image.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • There is strong shadow where there is much light. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    There is strong shadow where there is much light.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.– 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

    There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe