Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Love

• I love those who yearn for the impossible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Philosophy, Life Is Good

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act II, "Classical Walpurgis Night", 1832.

• Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Choices, Endless

• Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Men, Talking

• Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Philosophy

  "'Das Märchen' ('The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily')". Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1832, wn.rsarchive.org.

• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Beauty, Loneliness

• If I love you, what business is it of yours?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Funny Relationship

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1983). “Who Is Goethe?”, Suhrkamp Pub Ny

• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

• He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Dream

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1978). “Goethe's Faust: An abridged version”

• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

• Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Happiness

• This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

• Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

• All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Marriage, Being Yourself

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1949). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

• We don't get to know anything but what we love.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Knows

• A useless life is an early death.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1786.

• Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Learning, Understanding

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.160, Ravenio Books

• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Baby, Children

  Hermann and Dorothea pt. 3 (1797)

• To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Two, Literature

• To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Self, Majority

• He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Famous Love

• 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

• A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Magic

• Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Hope, Pain

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.233, Delphi Classics

• Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Self, Faults

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1858). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.197

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