Light Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Colors are light's suffering and joy

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life is not light, but refracted colour.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always keep a day and night aspect.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tomorrow the sun will also rise to the occasion of another day with equal grandeur. Such is the nature of that morrow…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe