Quotes by Jean Paul
6 quotes by Jean Paul (died 1825), taken from 4 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: The Campaner Thal, Flower, Hesperus and Life of Quintus Fixlein.
The Campaner Thal
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“The tear of grief is but a diamond of the second water, but the tear of joy of the first.”
Flower
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“We love much more warmly when we are looking forward to making somebody happy than we do half an hour after, when we have done it.”
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“To-day the spring sun rests upon the world like the eye of a mother, and shines warm upon every heart, the wicked as well as the good.”
Hesperus
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“Only words winged by virtue and sensibility are the bees which, in such cases, carry the pollen of love from one soul into another.”
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“Truly, were I every evening to depict sunrise, and every morning to see it, still I should cry, like the children, Once more, once more!”
Life of Quintus Fixlein
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“A man whom grown-up people love, children love still more.”