The Sorrows of Young Werther

Chapter 20 Goethe's Famous Quotes
Life

The significance of a person does not lie in what he left behind, but in the fact that he does something and enjoys it, and prompts others to do something and enjoy it.

── "Goethe's Autobiography"

Everyone knows how to value the achievements of one's life, especially when one thinks and looks back on the past in later life.Then he had a sense of ease that no one else could take away.

——"Goethe's Maxims and Thoughts"

The mysteries of the path of life will not and cannot be revealed.On the rock of sin every traveler must stumble.But poets can point out these labyrinths.

—— "Goethe's Maxims and Thoughts"

There are so many unexpected and strange things that a person encounters in his life.It's not good if everything goes smoothly.If everything was smooth sailing, life would be ordinary, there would be no whispering and whispering, and there would be no discussion in society.

—— "Craviggo"

When we look back on our lives, we see many fragments of one broken object, because our mistakes and failures are the first things we see, and they overshadow our imaginations. Achievements and achievements.

——"Goethe's Maxims and Thoughts"

If a person wants to perform activities and must perform activities, he only needs to consider whether the time is appropriate, and there will be nothing he cannot do.

——"Goethe's Maxims and Thoughts"

love

People get love, nine out of ten do not come from pursuit.

- "Egmont"

Whoever knows true love, who knows how to enjoy and look forward to the happiness of love, will not give up this most noble happiness to a friend, even a friend he respects.

——"50-year-old man"

Lovers who really love each other can only be happy by relying on each other.

- "The Book of Timur"

Her dominion over me is undeniable, and she may be proud of it, but in this case the conqueror and the conquered are both victorious, and each is contented with equal pride.

——"Goethe Autobiography"

Day and night are alike to us; the day's sunshine cannot outshine love, but the night is as bright as day with the radiance of passion.

——"Goethe Autobiography"

family

All things are difficult at the beginning, but starting a family business is the hardest.

- "Hermann and Dorothea"

The wanderer who wanders the world will finally miss his homeland again, and find him in his hut, in the arms of his wife, surrounded by his children, and in the busy work of earning a living, which he has never found in the vast world. joy.

- "The Sorrows of Young Werther"

Family life is mainly about harmony between the upper and lower levels.

——"50-year-old man"

Honoring my parents is my long-cherished wish. I think no one is more virtuous and intelligent than the parents who gave birth to me and took care of me in my ignorant childhood.

- "Hermann and Dorothea"

If a child is left undisciplined and allowed to be frivolous and self-willed, and develop bad habits, how can a young man become an adult?
—— "Reinek Fox"

If parents are educated, educated children will be born.

—— "Gentle Xenion"

happiness

Only souls that love each other are blessed.

- "Egmont"

The highest happiness of a mortal man consists only in the preservation of his own character.

- "The Book of Timur"

What a blessing it is for the kind of person who immediately gets the first love, and doesn't have to waste the best hopes in his heart!

—— "Heman and Dou Lutai"

The happiness of man lies in the happiness of the heart.

——The Sorrows of Young Werther

I think the happiest people are those who can live their lives in a ignorant way like children.They dragged their dolls around like children, taking their clothes off and on, putting them on and taking them off, or obediently running around their mother's dessert drawer; and finally got their wish , so he chewed with his mouth full, shouting: more!more! ——This is the happy person.

——The Sorrows of Young Werther

Every moment, there is always a happy life for us, but we are not allowed to ask about what happened yesterday!If I sometimes dread the coming of dusk and the setting sun, I can still enjoy the view.

——"Elegy"

The more one can maintain composure in times of misfortune, endure pain calmly, and thus receive the highest evaluation and respect, and be set up as a role model, the more one can bring the highest honor to a person.

—— "Affinity"

What people think is ridiculous often reveals their essence best.The ridiculousness of things often arises from the contrasts with conventions that pass unintentionally in our minds.Shallow people often laugh when it is not worth laughing.As soon as something excites him, his inner comfort will be revealed.People who see through everything find almost everything ridiculous, but rational people think almost nothing is ridiculous.

—— "Affinity"

Pain is the friend of good advice.

- "Iphigenia on the Isle of Tauris"

A humiliated heart cannot be healed.

- "Torquato Tasso"

O happiness, who can attribute his unhappiness to the obstacles of the world!You don't feel it, you don't feel it, that your misfortune lies in your broken heart, in your disturbed mind; and all the kings of the world will not help you to undo it.

——The Sorrows of Young Werther

I reassured myself with unspeakable patience, and he reinvigorated me with tyranny and cruelty; I saw that my career was going to fail, and I was responsible for his perverse actions.

- "Egmont"

In the struggle of life and death, there is hellish pain. —— "The Iron Hand Göz von Bedchingen"

Being alone and lonely is dangerous.

——The Iron Hand Gerz von Belichingen

In a cage there is only misfortune.

——The Iron Hand Gerz von Belichingen

For fear and sorrow so easily eat away at the heart, and I find them more detestable than calamity itself.

- "Hermann and Dorothea"

(End of this chapter)