“Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.”
Death
“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
ForgivenessAll Quotes by Jean Paul
“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”
Sad“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”
Life“Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.”
Inspirational“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
Birthday“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.”
Morning“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.”
Death“Live your life and forget your age.”
Age“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.”
Nature“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.”
Home“For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.”
Health“Age does not matter if the matter does not age.”
Age“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
Music“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
Change“Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.”
Beauty“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.”
Courage“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”
Age“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
Life“Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.”
Strength“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
Forgiveness