Jean Paul Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.”

“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.”

“You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.”