Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Youth

• We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Age, Faults

• Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

• We must be young to do great things.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Youth, Young, Great Things

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.293, Ravenio Books

• The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Atheism, World, Woe

• Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Awkward, Youth

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1848). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life”, p.59

• Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Educational, Philosophy, Believe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

• Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Rome, World

  "Italian Journey". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1816.

• Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Girl

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

• 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

• Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Youth, Instruments, Chosen

• To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Youth, Fortune

• 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”

• Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
  With crazy youth's arrogant way?
  Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
  Had I myself not also been insufferable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Would Be, Arrogant

• Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Age, Youth

• Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Youth, Mankind

• What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Youth, Abundance

  Wahrheit und Dichtung (Poetry and Truth) pt. 2, ch. 6 (1811 - 1833)

• That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Campaigns, Way

• Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Prayer, Lying, Past

• Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Elderly, Years

• What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Desire, Youth

• We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Girl, Character, Understanding

• Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Progress, Culture, World

• Tis Lilith.
  Who?
  Adam's first wife is she.
  Beware the lure within her lovely tresses,
  The splendid sole adornment of her hair;
  When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare,
  Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Hair, Wife

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2008). “Faust”, p.178, PR Seitz Bookseller

• If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soon Enough, Faults, Youth

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Culture, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.189

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