Jean Paul Quotes

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it...

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the stor...

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everyt...

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and ...