Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

#god #planted #sigh #soul #unutterable

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ↗

— Jean Paul

#mere #more #pleasure #something #than

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

— Jean Paul

#cease #hopes #joys #makes #old

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. ↗

— Jean Paul

#around #beauty #been #flies #fools

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cowardly #danger #dangers #first #men

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. ↗

— Jean Paul

#aged #away #been #foes #grave

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

— Jean Paul

#eve #every #every man #his #man

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

— Jean Paul

#another #beautiful #else #forgiving #humanity

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ↗

— Jean Paul

#gloomy #life #moonlight #night

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

— Jean Paul

#descends #dew #does #down #evening