Quotes by Jean Paul

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

“the flute is the true magical rod that changes all it touches in the inward world; an enchanter's wand at which the secret depths of the soul open. The inward world is the true world," said Vult; "...”

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

“When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words:'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning pray...”

“On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.”

“Fine minds are seldom fine souls.”

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

“How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!”

“The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.”

“She knew of a woman who had entered such a bargain at a large automobile manufacturer in 1973 and successfully managed to keep her accounting position for over four decades.”

“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.”

“Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm. ”

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”

“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.”

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

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