Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Pain

• 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

• ‎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

• I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Hate, Giving

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

• Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Eye, Light

• Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Men, May

• Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Hate, Heart

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

• Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Archer, Arrows

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