"The Sorrows of Young Werther" Quotes

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

We are so constituted that we can never receive from the external world the true and full and genuine gratification which we perpetually crave.

The joy of life is in living it, or so it seems to me at this moment.

An unfortunate man is driven to such a degree of despair—especially from his own errors—that he would seek to destroy himself, if he were not kept from it by the ultimate fear of an even worse condition after death.

A man who has many times thought about suicide does not easily take his life.

So you can find no way of satisfying your wishes except by feeling sorry for yourself and acting like a martyr?

He was one of those who knew how to give each person his due and to keep a sense of proportion in all things.

What is the commonest and cheapest of all the pleasures? It is the pleasure of being important.

We know nothing of the cataracts of the soul. Far in the background, the secret of the spirit is hidden. The soul, like the body, has its mysteries and its signs. It is as sensitive as the body to the most subtle influences.