“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.”
Beauty
“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”
LifeAll Quotes by Jean Paul
“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
Birthday“Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.”
Beauty“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”
Life“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“Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.”
Death“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
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.”
Morning“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”
Age“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”
Sad“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.”
Age“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
Forgiveness“God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.”
God“Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.”
Strength“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
Music“Age does not matter if the matter does not age.”
Age“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
Change“Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.”
Inspirational“Live your life and forget your age.”
Age“For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.”
Health