The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe