Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote about frustration from The Sorrows of Young Werther - what a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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“ what a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! ”
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). copy citation

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Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source The Sorrows of Young Werther
Topic frustration envy
Date 1774
Language English
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Note Translated by R. D. Boylan
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2527/2527-h/2527-h.htm

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote about frustration from The Sorrows of Young Werther - what a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote about frustration from The Sorrows of Young Werther - what a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!