Heart Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each one sees what he carries in his heart

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only the heart without a stain knows ease.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When glance turns To a sky-blue clear day, When the purplr-red sun Sinks low at sirocco, Here nature bestows glory, Joy, sound…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“But you will never know another's heart, unless you are prepared to give yours too.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe