Jean Paul Literature Quotations

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

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

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.

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

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

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