Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Destiny

• Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sympathy, Destiny, Joy

• The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Destiny, People

• The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny, Violence, Attention

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.12, Courier Corporation

• Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Morning, Destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (18??). “The Works of J. W. Von Goethe”

• Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Destiny, Order

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.186, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny, Men, Reason

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.57, e-artnow

• 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

  Destiny, Men, Suffering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.45, 谷月社

• Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny, People, Wells

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (2013). “The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings”, p.63, Penguin

• Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Winter, Thinking

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.980, Delphi Classics

• Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny, Men, Action

• How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna SWANWICK (1843). “Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller, Translated, with Introductory Remarks, by Anna Swanwick”, p.2

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