Author: Goethe

Cited by

• Jack Miles (1)
  • IN: GOD: A Biography (1996) Non-Fiction, Religion, American
    EPIGRAPH: The spirit comes to guide me in my need, I write, "In the beginning was the Deed."
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
• Jostein Gaarder (1)
  • IN: Sophie's World (1991) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1)
  • IN: The Master & Margarita (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "...so who are you in the end?" "I am a part of that power which eternally desires evil and eternally does good."
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
• Thomas H. Cook (1)
  • IN: The Orchids (1982) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Day’s Eden brightness still relieving The awful Night’s intense profound …
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
• John Lutz (1)
  • IN: Burn (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With knowledge doubt increases.
    FROM: Maxims and Reflections, (1833), Book, Germany
• Paul Johnston (1)
  • IN: Maps of Hell (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori. Work on what you have inherited from your fathers, That you may possess it.
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
• Connie Willis (1)
  • IN: Passage (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: More light!
    FROM: Goethe’s last words, (1832), Conversation, Germany
• Chuck Pfarrer (1)
  • IN: Killing Che (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whosoever unceasingly strives upward... him we can save.
    FROM: Faust, (1832), Play, Germany
• Klaus Mann (1)
  • IN: Mephisto (1977) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: All men's failings I forgive in actors; no actors failing will I forgive in men.
    FROM: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, (1796), Novel, Germany
• Cathy Kelly (1)
  • IN: It Started With Paris (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Charles Jackson (1)
  • IN: The Sunnier Side and Other Stories (1950) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"
    FROM: The Sorrows of Young Werther, (1774), Novel, Germany
• Anita Brookner (1)
  • IN: Family and Friends (1985) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is much to be said for the advantage of rules and regulations, much the same thing as can be said in praise of middle-class society - he who sticks to them will never produce anything that is bad or in poor taste, just as he who lets himself be moulded by law, order, and prosperity will never become an intolerable neighbour or a striking scoundrel. On the other hand... rules and regulations ruin our true appreciation of nature and our power to express it.
    FROM: The Sorrows of Young Werther, (1774), Novel, Germany
• K.W. Jeter (2)
  • IN: Infernal Devices (1986) Steampunk, Science Fiction, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All comfort in life is based upon a regular occurrence of external phenomena.
    FROM: From my Life: Poetry and Truth, (1833), Book, Germany
• Blas de Robles, Jean-Marie (1)
  • IN: Where Tigers Are At Home (2008) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: No one can walk beneath palm trees with impunity, and ideas are sure to change in a land where elephants and tigers are at home.
    FROM: Elective Affinities, (1809), Novel, Germany
• Kirsten Bakis (1)
  • IN: Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In length and breadth how doth my poodle grow!
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
• Mackenzi Lee (1)
  • IN: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let me put it like this. In this place, whoever looks seriously about him and has eyes to see is bound to become a stronger character.
    FROM: Italian Journey, (1816), Essay, Germany
• Ödön Von Horváth (1)
  • IN: The Eternal Philistine (1930) Political Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: As long as you lack This 'dying and becoming!' You're but a cloudy guest Upon the sunny earth
    FROM: Selige Sehnsucht, (1817), Poem, Germany
• Jostein Gardner (1)
  • IN: Sophie’s World (1991) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Tim Powers (1)
  • IN: Earthquake Weather (1997) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: So long as you do not die and rise again, You are a stranger to the dark earth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Bohumil Hrabal (1)
  • IN: Too Loud a Solitude (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Only the sun has a right to its spots.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Oscar Hijuelos (1)
  • IN: A Simple Habana Melody (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is the use of all this joy and pain? Sweet peace, come, oh come to my heart...
    FROM: Wanderer's Nightsong, (1815), Poem, Germany
• Ross Simonini (1)
  • IN: The Book of Formation (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The highest bliss on earth shall be The joys of personality!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Jesse Kellerman (1)
  • IN: The Executor (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The philosopher comes with analysis And proves it had to be like this: The first was so, the second so, And hence the third and fourth was so, And were not the first and second here, Then the third and fourth could never appear. That is what all the students believe, But they have never learned to weave.
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany