“God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.”
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Famous Jean Paul Quotes
“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
“Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.”
“What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.”
“I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.”
Source: Life of Jean Paul F. Richter
“Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.”
Source: Titan: A Romance
“Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.”
Source: Levana; or, The doctrine of education, tr. [by A.H.]. Preceded by a short biogr. of the author [condensed from that of E. Förster] and his autobiography, a fragment