Quotes by Jean Paul

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

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

"Age does not matter if the matter does not age."

"Live your life and forget your age."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."