“God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.”
More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you.”
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”