Jean Paul Richter Quotes

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's

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

Pemalu adalah orang yang takut sebelum bahaya datang. Pengecut adalah orang yang takut ketika bahaya datang. Dan pemberani baru takut setelah bahaya lewat.

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.

One learns taciturnity best among people without it, and loquacity among the taciturn.

From dreams of bliss shall men awake One day, but not to weep: The dreams remain: they only break The mirror of the sleep.

Fine minds are seldom fine souls.

Die deutsche Sprache ist die Orgel unter den Sprachen.

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

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

Ich will mich deutlicher erklären, setzen die Deutschen hinzu, wenn sie sich deutlich erklärt haben.

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

...when any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new question.

Durch den Nachgeschmack des vergangenen und den Vorgeschmack des zukünftigen Leidens überfüllen wir den Kelch des Augenblickes selbst.

Сам поэт должен научиться писать свои вещи в перевёрнутом виде, чтобы только в зеркале искусства, претерпев ещё одно обращение, становился разборчив и удобочитаем его почерк.

Фантазия европейца так портится с каждым веком, что в конце концов станет невозможным не быть бесконечно тонким, когда не понимаешь, о чём речь.

..einmal ein Reich-Abschied von 1577 den guten Frauen das körperliche Springen verbot..

A man never reveals his character more vividly than when portraying the character of another.

The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. -Jean Paul Richter

The best moments of a visit are those which again and again postpone its close.

No longer Byronized, Margaret read Schiller, Novalis, Jean Paul Richter, and above all Goethe. “It seems to me as if the mind of Goethe had embraced the universe,” she wrote to James. “He

The rapid, but uniform motions of the heavenly bodies, serve well enough to typify the grand and continuous motions of the Miltonic mind. But the wild, giddy, fantastic, capricious, incalculable, springing, vaulting, tumbling, dancing, waltzing, caprioling, pirouetting, sky-rocketing of the chamois, the harlequin, the Vestris, the storm-loving raven — the raven? no, the lark (for often he ascends " singing up to heaven's gates," but like the lark he dwells upon the earth), in short, of the Proteus, the Ariel, the Mercury, the monster — John Paul, can be compared to nothing in heaven or earth, or the waters under the earth, except to the motions of the same faculty as existing in Shakspere.