13 quotes
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Faust, Part 2 (1832)
Girls we love for what they are;
Young men for what they promise to be.
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Hermann und Dorothea (1797)
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
If I love you, what business is that of yours?
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
What's it to you if I love you?
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786)
Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.
Roman Elegies (1789)
A world without love would be no world.
Roman Elegies (1789)
My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Disputed