9 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Love

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on love

11. We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

36. What's it to you if I love you?

43. Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

46. I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column, Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey, But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple, Love's temple, receiving its new initiate. Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love, The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.

48. A world without love would be no world.

49. Beloved, don't fret that you gave yourself so quickly! Believe me, I don't think badly or wrongly of you. The arrows of Love are various: some scratch us, And our hearts suffer for years from their slow poison. But others strong-feathered with freshly sharpened points Pierce to the marrow, and quickly inflame the blood. In the heroic ages, when gods and goddesses loved, Desire followed a look, and joy followed desire.

50. I feel I'm happily inspired now on Classical soil: The Past and Present speak louder, more charmingly. Here, as advised, I leaf through the works of the Ancients With busy hands, and, each day, with fresh delight. But at night Love keeps me busy another way: I become half a scholar but twice as contented. And am I not learning, studying the shape Of her lovely breasts: her hips guiding my hand?

136. The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

146. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.