Logo
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would thi

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, translated from German

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Winter
category

Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. – Montenegrin Proverb

Category:
Winter
[W]hat a severe yet master artist old Winter is…. No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866

Category:
Winter

One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie. – Witts Recreations: Selected from the Finest Fancies of Modern Muses, with A Thou

Category:
Winter

I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. – Andrew Wyeth

Category:
Winter

Random Quotes

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey

Category:
Consumerism

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
Truth

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. – Timaeus of Locri

Category:
God

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesnt blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who wont cheat, then you know he never will. – John D. MacDonald

Category:
Change