Jean Paul Quotes
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
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Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?
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When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity - imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment - then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.
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No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.
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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.
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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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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.
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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Weaklings must lie.
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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.
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus welchem wir nicht getrieben werden können.