Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Death
• Spirit
• Eternity
• Conviction

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  • Death
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  • Eternity