Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Death is a commingling of eternity...

Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Quote

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotes about death:

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Trivulzianus

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Mark Twain

death

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
Epicurus

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

death

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Quotes about time:

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
Leonardo da Vinci

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Francis Bacon - Novum organum

Time is a great master; it regulates things well.”
Pierre Corneille - Sertorius

time

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

time

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

time

It takes a long time to become young.”
Pablo Picasso

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Quotes about eternity:

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.”
Arthur Rimbaud

Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.”
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Be humanity evermore our goal.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.”
Vladimir Jankélévitch - La Mort

Eternity is like a wheel, which has neither beginning nor end.”
Hildegard of Bingen

eternity

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

hope

The aim of living is Life itself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

life

It is not enough to take steps, which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

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