Goethean Observation Quotes & Sayings

They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform. — Padgett Powell

The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy. — F.K. Preston

When the end comes, I hope it's as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we've never seen before. — Joey Comeau

I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful - being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational. — James Branch Cabell

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win. — Nasser Hussain

Hold the thoughts, know the thoughts and you realize the thoughts have slowed showing breaks and gaps, be the witness to them and you shall be meditating — Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

Who would have thought that my first fight over a girl would be for a girl who isn't even mine? — Colleen Hoover

I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer. — Adolf Hitler

And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat (23). — Rudyard Kipling

Some people seem to think that my life dedicated to simplicity and service is austere and joyless, but they do not know the freedom of simplicity. I am thankful to God every moment of my life for the great riches that have been showered upon me. My life is full and good but never overcrowded. If life is overcrowded then you are doing more than is required for you to do. — Peace Pilgrim

Who says: 'Here reigns freedom' is lying, because freedom doesn't reign. — Erich Fried

Emma is the engine of this home, the person who propels it forward, keeps everyone fed and clothed and healthy and happy - and yet she's entirely alone within it, and getting lonelier with every item ticked off her checklist. This is what it comes down to: the flat-out invisible drudgery of family maintenance, the vanishing of personality as everyone else's accrues. — Harriet Lane

I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow — John Frusciante

Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure. — Gabrielle Zevin

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove. — Rob Bell