Life Quotes Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”

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

“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”

“I see no end to my misery but the grave.”

“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

“It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.”

“The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.”

“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.”

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”