Quotes By Jean Paul

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.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

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.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

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.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

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

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.

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

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

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

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

Age does not matter if the matter does not 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.

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

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.