Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love itself becomes such an intimacy that it is unbreakable, that is another thing, that is not a legal sanction. Legal sanctions are needed only because you are afraid. You know that your love is not enough; you need the legal support for it. You know perfectly well that you can escape or the woman can escape, hence you need the policeman to keep you together. But this is ugly, to need a policeman to keep you together. That's what marriage is!

Hate is a passionate emotion.

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

Love is the true condition of human life.

To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,I hold to be damnable and heretical:and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,my uncleToby fell into it.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

I've seen hatred and I have seen love. And love is more powerful.

Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.

Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

Everybody knows what love is in one way or another, and everybody has an answer of what love means to them.

Love is much more demanding than law.

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.