Hello everyone! I very recently read Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and what a piece of work (apparently written throughout all of the poet's lifetime)! But I think that seems a topic besides quotations. I collected some priceless quotes I thought to share. Enjoy.
"Age does not make men childish as folks tell us
it only finds them children to the end."
"The glorious feelings, those that most we prized,
That made indeed our very life of life,
In the world's turmoil and ignoble strife
Are sear'd and paralysed."
"All that philosophy can teach,
The lore of jurist and of leech,
I've mastered, ah! and sweated through
Theology's dead deserts, too,
Yete here, poor fool! for all my lore,
I stand no wiser than before."
"Art is long, time short."
"[Words] must flow out from the heart.
And, when the soul is touched with passion's flame,
We look around and ask - Who burns the same?"
"Nor past nor future now the soul employ,
The present only constitutes our joy."