The Sorrows of Young Werther
Is there a blind passion alive within me that makes my heart beat uncontrollably?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading Werther's letters, in which he pours everything into a love he can never reach, I asked myself whether I had ever known a passion so pure and so destructive. Into a world ruled by reason and rationalism, Goethe cast this slender novel and set all of Europe ablaze with fever. Werther's sorrow is not merely the ache of lost love; it is the desperate writhing of a human soul that longs for the infinite within a world of sharp limits. Like a flame, the book reminds me again how dazzlingly beautiful an ungovernable surge of feeling can be, here in our cooled and tranquil lives.
"Is it true that the very thing which constitutes man's happiness must become the source of his misery?"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
"인간을 행복하게 만드는 것이, 동시에 그의 불행의 원천이 될 수 있다는 것은 과연 사실인가?"
🌱Apply It Today
Without weighing outcomes or efficiency, immerse yourself fully for one hour today in whatever truly draws your heart.
