Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Fate

• Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Hope, Motivation

• The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Heart, Fate

  Elective Affinities bk. 2, ch. 3 (1808)

• It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Fear, Fate

• My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Joy, Hereafter

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.16, e-artnow

• ‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Fate, Should Have

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.92, Booklassic

• Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Spurs, Treasure

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.57

• The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Hands, Law

• Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day.
  [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag,
  Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Men, Pieces

• Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Winning, Suffering

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