Quotes by german authors

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Jean Paul

Sad Age Old Old Age Our Hopes Joys Makes Cease

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. Jean Paul

Paradise We Cannot Out Recollection Only Cannot Which Turned

It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, 'I am in my office now.' Jens Voigt

You need bad times to become a better and strong player. Jerome Boateng

You Strong Better Become Bad Bad Times Times Player Need

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life. Jerome Boateng

Life You Unlucky Win Sometimes Lose

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity. Jil Sander

Simplicity Luxury Am Convinced

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? Johann Georg Hamann

Good Home Freedom Me Am Festive Garment Slave

The unnatural, that too is natural. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Natural Too Unnatural

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing Insight Terrible Without Activity

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People Earnest Thoughtful Thoughtful People Shaky Footing Public Stand Deeply

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kiss Correct Like Answer Affectionate

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love Heart Behavior Purest Allied Outward Courtesy Springs To Love

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You Whatever Possess Understand Cannot

Every step of life shows much caution is required. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Every Every Step Step Caution Much Required Shows

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Solitude Society Only Inspired Instructed

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People Noble Attracts Knows How Person Hold Them

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Miracles Mysteries Necessarily

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

People Those Seem Absent Ideal Quite Commonplace Who Present

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Achieve Must He Demanded Him Himself Greater Than Regard

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Me People Better Think Am Than Reform Trying Who