Life Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

— Christopher Marlowe

“When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust”

— Antonia Michaelis

“Couldst thou in vision see, thyself the man God meant, thou never then could be, the man thou art content.”

— Augustus Strong

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou…

— Robert Kennedy

“The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.”

— George R.R. Martin

“...men lived and died all the time by the peculiarities of their soul, which they could never expect one another to understand.”

— Charles Finch

“(Quoting Goethe :) "We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the…

— James Howe

“Whatever you can do or think you can begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe.”

— Nesta Tuomey

“Where are your books? - that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men…

— William Wordsworth

“All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.”

— Anonymous

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The words of mere men are as naught against the Word of God.”

— Gil Courtemanche