Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Woe Quotations

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.