Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Time
  • History
  • Silence

• I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.

  

  Valerie June
  • Records
  • Loner
  • Relaxing

• Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Silence
  • Same

• Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Fear
  • Running
  • Silence

• Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Age
  • Night
  • Memories

• What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Silence

• To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• Silence is a fence around wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Fence

• While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Children
  • Light
  • Eyes

• Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton. Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Beautiful
  • Church
  • Silence

• Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Music
  • Done
  • Silence

• There's a degree of deception in silence.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Silence
  • Deception

• I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.

  

  Kevin Yoder
  • Important
  • History
  • Night

• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

  

  Jay Griffiths
  • Children
  • Silence

• Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

  

  Charles Buxton
  • Silence
  • Criticism

• My idea of fun is to sit looking at a blank wall in a cottage, making up stories in utter silence. The thought of going back to work in an office is horrendous.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • America
  • Culture
  • Style

• Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Nice job…what the hell is U2 supposed to play?

  

  David Letterman
  • Job
  • Nice

• Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Strong
  • Regard
  • Jealous

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Silence
  • Believes
  • Airs