Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Wedding
1749–1832 Germany
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14 quotes
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.
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.
Whoever attacks marriage undermines […] the basis of all moral society.
Elective Affinities (1809)
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)
Roman Elegies (1789)
A world without love would be no world.
Roman Elegies (1789)
My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.