Quotes By Jean Paul

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Weaklings must lie.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

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

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

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

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Live your life and forget your age.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

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

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

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

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

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

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

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.