Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's some bumpy roads on the road," or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, "Damn, you did that?"

I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

When in doubt, make funny faces.

No one looks stupid when they're having fun.

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.

The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.

People like to play with the tuna, sometimes.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.