Jean Paul's Quotes

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

Jean Paul

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Jean Paul

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

Jean Paul

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

Jean Paul

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Jean Paul

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

Jean Paul

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Jean Paul

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul

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

Jean Paul

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jean Paul

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.

Jean Paul

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

Jean Paul

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

Jean Paul

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

Jean Paul

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

Jean Paul

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Jean Paul