Jean Paul Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

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

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

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

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

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

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

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

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Repetition is the mother of education.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

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

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

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

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

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