English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present..."

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors. Kevin Costner
Ray Walston quote: "I don't see all the movies that come out."
I don't see all the movies that come out. Ray Walston
there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world. Orson Scott Card
Mike Weir quote: "The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being..."
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there. Mike Weir
Chuck Yeager quote: "Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their..."
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own. Chuck Yeager
E. L. Konigsburg quote: "I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one..."
I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. E. L. Konigsburg
I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point is there in leaving some books behind any more than bottles, clothes, or cheap jewellry? Graham Greene
So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy. Richard Marx
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter. Albert Einstein
People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum. Miley Cyrus
Elsa Maxwell quote: "laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can"
laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can Elsa Maxwell
Jeanne Moreau quote: "My face has changed with the years and has enough history in..."
My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with. Jeanne Moreau
-- What, then, does one experience of the You? -- Nothing at all. For one does not experience it. -- What, then, does one know of the You? -- Only everything. For one no longer knows particulars. Martin Buber
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you."
Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you. L. M. Montgomery
Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist. John Sherman Cooper