"Give me those days with heart in..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.”
“Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.”
“Man's restlessness makes him strive.”
More on Youth
“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”
“I go to school the youth to learn the future.”
“The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.”
More on Emotion
“Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.”
“A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.”
“People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.”