The best Quotes from Faust

Shooting Star:
Once I blazed across the sky,
Leaving trails of flame;
I fell to earth, and here I lie -
Who'll help me up again?

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

The Germans and many others have the gift to make science inaccessible.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

More light!

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

Do you wish to know the truth about the shooting stars at night? They are but fleeting moments of luminosity.

Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now

Driving at night and passing through all the city lights makes me feel like a shooting star passing through all the stars at night.

Maybe shooting stars aren't really supposed to grant wishes, but to make us think about what we really want...

A whole new world
A hundred thousand things to see
I'm like a shooting star
I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

You're the wish I make on every shooting star!

Lift your head up even in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.

I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.

Life is like a shooting star where everyone wants you to fall down.

Sometimes, we're like stars - we fall so someone's wish can come true.

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

Things are perfect when you look at the sky, see a shooting star, but don't make a wish because you're so happy anyways.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

The number of places in paradise is limited; only in hell is entry open to all.

Do you know the parable about the frog in the cream? Two frogs landed in a pail of cream. One, thinking rationally, understood straight away that there was no point in resistance and that you can't deceive destiny. But then what if there's an afterlife – why bother jumping around, entertaining false hopes in vain? He crossed his legs and sank to the bottom. The second, the fool, was probably an atheist. And she started to flop around. It would seem that she had no reason to flail about if everything was predestined. But she flopped around and flopped around anyway . . . Meanwhile, the cream turned to butter. And she crawled out. We honour the memory of this second frog's friend, eternally damned for the sake of progress and rational thought.

There are some things that you don't want to do and you pledge to yourself that you won't do, you forbid yourself, and then suddenly they happen all by themselves. You don't even have time to think about them, and they don't make it to the cognitive centres of the brain: they just happen and that's it, and you're left just watching yourself with surprise, and convincing yourself that it wasn't your fault, it just happened all by itself.