Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSome people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe