Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Marriage

• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

• Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

• When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

• All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Marriage, Being Yourself

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1949). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Friendship, Marriage

• It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

• The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.65, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Society, Foundation

• Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Civilization, Pinnacle

• A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Loss, Men

• When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Way, Married

• Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Men, Married

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