Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Eternity
-
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
→ -
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.
→ -
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
→ -
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
→ -
A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
→ -
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
→ -
Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
→ -
That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
→ -
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
→
Related Authors
-
Heinrich Heine Poet -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosopher -
Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist -
William Shakespeare Poet -
Immanuel Kant Philosopher -
Thomas Mann Novelist -
Heinrich von Kleist Poet -
Victor Hugo Poet -
Friedrich Schiller Poet -
Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher -
Franz Schubert Composer -
Lord Byron Baron Byron -
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Writer -
Johann Gottfried Herder Philosopher -
Rudolf Steiner Philosopher -
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist -
Gunter Grass Novelist -
Richard Wagner Composer -
Leo Tolstoy Writer -
Johann Sebastian Bach Composer