Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do.

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

From the end spring new beginnings.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.