Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Solitude

• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Beauty, Loneliness

• One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loneliness, Inspiration, Being Alone

• Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Solitude, Fine, Definite

• 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

• Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Solitude, Innovation, Facts

• As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, School, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Children, Being Alone

• Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Solitude, Dangerous

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.42, Princeton University Press

• Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Solitude

• Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
  [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,
  Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Solitude, World

• Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Sea, Solitude

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850). “Dramatic works: Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont. Transl. by Anna Swanwick. And Goetz v. Berlichingen. Transl. by Sir Walter Scott. Carefully rev”, p.227

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