Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cited by

• Shumeet Baluja (1)
  • IN: The Silicon Jungle (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."
    FROM: NULL, (1893), NULL, Germany
• Stephen R. Covey (1)
  • IN: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) Non-Fiction, Psychology, American
    EPIGRAPH: Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Tony Kushner (1)
  • IN: A Bright Room Called Day (1987) Non-Fiction, History, American
    EPIGRAPH: You know, upon our German stages, / Each man puts on just what he may; / So spare me not upon this day... / So in this narrow house of boarded space / Creation's fullest circle go to pace / And walk, with leisured speed, your spell / Past Heaven, through the Earth, to Hell.
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
• A. S. Byatt (2)
  • IN: The Biographer's Tale (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Dice Gleichnisreden sind artig und unterhaltend, und wer spielt nicht hem mit Ahnlichkeiten? (These similitudes are charming and entertaining, and who does not enjoy playing with analogies?)
    FROM: Wahlvenwandtschaften, (1809), Novel, Germany
  • IN: The Biographer’s Tale (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Diese Gleichnisreden sind artig und unterhaltend, und wer spielt nicht gern mit Ähnlichkeiten?
    FROM: Wahlverwandtschaften, (1809), Novel, Germany
• Thornton Wilder (2)
  • IN: The Ides of March (1948) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering it's values...
    FROM: Faust, part two, (1790), Play, Germany
• J.M. Coetzee (1)
  • IN: Youth (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Wer den Dichter will verstehen mub in Dichters Lande gehen
    FROM: NULL, (1819), NULL, Germany
• Matthew Jobin (1)
  • IN: The Skeleth (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All truly wise thoughts have been thought before; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1)
  • IN: The Master and Margarita (1967) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: … and so who are you, after all? — I am part of the power which forever wills evil and forever works good.
    FROM: Faust, (1829), Play, Germany
• Valerie O Patterson (1)
  • IN: The Other Side of Blue (2009) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [A] blue surface seems to retire from us. But as we readily follow an agreeable object that flies from us, so we love to contemplate blue, not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it.
    FROM: Theory of Colors, (1810), NULL, Germany
• John Lutz (2)
  • IN: Torch (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I should love you, what business is it of yours?
    FROM: Philine in Bk. IV, Ch. 9, Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre, (1795), Book, Germany
  • IN: Burn (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With knowledge doubt increases.
    FROM: Maxims and Reflections, (1833), Book, Germany
• Stephen May (1)
  • IN: Wake Up Happy Every Day (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Thomas Wolfe (1)
  • IN: Of Time and The River (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen bluhn, Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen gluhn, Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht, Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht, Kennst du es wohl? Dahin! Dahin Mocht' ich mit dir, O mein Geliebter, ziehn! Kennst du das Haus, auf Saulen ruht sein Dach, Es glanzt der Saal, es schimmert das Gemach, Und Marmorbilder stehn und sehn mich an: Was hat man dir, du armes Kind, getan? Kennst du es wohl? Dahin! Dahin Mocht' ich mit dir, O mein Beschutzer, ziehn! Kennst du den Berg und seinen Wolkensteg? Das Maultier sucht im Nebel seinen Weg, in Hohlen wohnt der Drachen alte Brut, Es sturzt der Fels und uber ihn die Flut: Kennst du ihn wohl? Dahin! Dahin Geht unser Weg; O Vater, lass uns ziehn!
    FROM: Mignon's Song, (1795), NULL, Germany
• Sari Wilson (1)
  • IN: Girl Through Glass (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, without its presence, would never have been revealed.
    FROM: The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe, (1833), Book, Germany
• Susan Vreeland (1)
  • IN: Luncheon of the Boating Party (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Saying, Germany
• Thomas Mann (1)
  • IN: Lotte in Weimar (1939) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Durch allen Schall und Klang Der Transoxanen Drkuhnt sich unser Sang Auf deine Bahnen! Uns ist fur gar nichts bang, In dir lebendig; Dein Leben daure lang, Dein Reich bestandig!
    FROM: West-östlicher Diwan, (1819), Poem, Germany
• Edith Wharton (1)
  • IN: The Valley of Decision (1902) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Zu neuen Ufern lockt ein neuer Tag.
    FROM: Faust: A Tragedy, (1808), Play, Germany
• William Howitt (1)
  • IN: The History of the Supernatural (1863) Religion, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Die Geisterwelt ist nicht verschlossen; Dein Sinn ist zu, dein Herz ist tot.
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
• Warren Fales Draper Andrew, John (1)
  • IN: The Sisters Abroad, or, an Italian Journey (1857) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Know'st thou the land, where flowers of citron bloom, The golden orange glows thro' leafy gloom, From the blue heaven the breezes float so bland, The myrtles still, and tall the laurels stand? Know'st thou the land?
    FROM: Mignon, (1795), Poem, Germany