Jean Paul Quotes

The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.

Kein Autor erdreistet sich, allen Lesern zu schreiben; gleichwohl erkeckt sich jeder Leser, alle Autoren zu lesen.

Nach Kant ist die Bildung der Weltkörper leichter zu deduzieren als die Bildung einer Raupe. Dasselbe gilt für das Besingen; und ein bestimmter Kleinstädter ist schwerer poetisch darzustellen als ein Nebel-Held aus Morgenland.

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

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

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Fine minds are seldom fine souls.

"A man," answered Vult, "must have some chosen one, to whom, when he has involved all others in vapor and fog, he can open his breastplate, and the breast itself, and say, look in!"

The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.

A man never describes his own character so clearly as when he describes another.

Bücher lesen heißt wandern gehen in ferne Welten, aus den Stuben über die Sterne

Дайте ни най-добрите майки, и ние ще станем най-добрите хора.

Suffering is my gain; I bow
To my Heavenly Father's will,
And receive it hushed and still;
Suffering is my worship now.

Дългата надежда е по-сладка от бързия сюрприз.

The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.