Jean Paul quotes

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

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

Live your life and forget your age.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

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

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

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

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

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

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

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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

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.

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

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

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

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

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.