No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.


The Sorrows of Young Werther (ed. Penguin UK, 2006) - ISBN: 9780141921297

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from...

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from...

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from...

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from...