Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust” — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.” — Goethe Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on,… — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge for mankind in polished speeches that are no more than vaporous winds rustling the… — Goethe Copy Share Image
“O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My dear young friends, I speak to you as one who stands on the edge of eternity. From that perspective, I see… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Victor Faust did much more than help me escape a life of abuse and servitude. He changed me. He changed the landscape… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“Du, Erde, warst auch diese Nacht beständig Und atmest neu erquickt zu meinen Füßert, Beginnest schon mit Lust mich zu umgeben, Du… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If you had swum across the furthest ocean And seen the vastness of infinity Though dread of death might seize you, you'd… — Goethe Copy Share Image
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“Just take a look at our patrons, and you'll know Some don't appreciate us, others never will.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“That which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience. — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being full of mischief, they love to listen; they gladly obey, for they like to betray you, pretending to be sent from… — Goethe Copy Share Image
My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust… — Tim Gane Copy Share Image
Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image