8 quotes
"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
- Jean Paul
Hope
"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."
- Jean Paul
Adversity
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."
- Jean Paul
Reflection
"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
- Jean Paul
Reflection
"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."
- Jean Paul
Wisdom
"What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity."
- Jean Paul
Wisdom
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
- Jean Paul
Philosophy
"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
- Jean Paul
Spirituality