Quote by

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Related Quotes:

  1. Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery? – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  6. Each one sees what he carries in his heart. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  9. The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. A clever man commits no minor blunders. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  11. If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  12. Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  13. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. Colors are light’s suffering and joy – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  17. For in music there is no material to be deducted. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  18. Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  19. The limits of my language are the limits of my universe. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  20. It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  21. We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  22. Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  23. We are all pilgrims who seek Italy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  24. Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  25. 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
  26. Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  27. Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  28. It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  29. Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  30. There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  31. Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  32. 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
  33. Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  34. Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  35. There is strong shadow where there is much light. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  36. Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  37. In all things it is better to hope than to despair. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  38. Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  39. It’s in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  40. On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More Quotes

, , , , , , , , ,