All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Desire”

“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
“While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.”
“A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.”
“In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!”
“I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.”
“The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.”
“From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.”
“I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.”
“Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.”
“Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.”

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