“God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.”

German polymath and writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Goethe is best known for his novel *The Sorrows of Young Werther*, which became a defining work of Sturm und Drang. His later masterpiece, *Faust*, remains a cornerstone of world literature, exploring human ambition and the search for meaning.