Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Eternity

• The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spiritual, Eye, Shine On

• The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.65, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Tyrants, Different Faces

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.80, Ravenio Books

• That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Eternity, Eternal

• The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Night, Reality

• Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.53, Ravenio Books

• Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Death, Time, Men

• I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soul, Eternity, Activity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.108

• A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Relationship, Sex, Men

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