Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

A busy life is a wasted life.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)