Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust” Quotes (11 Quotes)

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed i crave for death, I long for rest.

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us?

Everything transitory is but an image.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?