Jean Paul Richter Quotes
|
|
|
There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation.
|
|
|
|
Time is the chrysalis of eternity.
[Time]
|
|
|
|
To love all mankind a cheerful state of being is required; but to see into mankind, into life, and still more into ourselves, suffering is requisite.
[Suffering]
|
|
|
|
Trifles we should let not plague us only, but also gratify us; we should seize not their poison-bags only, but their honey-bags also.
[Trifles]
|
|
|
|
Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable.
[Mother]
|
|
|
|
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
[Variety]
|
|
|
|
We learn our virtues from the friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. - We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
[Friendship]
|
|
|
|
We take contradiction more easily than is supposed, if not violently given, even though it is well founded. - Hearts are like flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.
|
|
|
|
When those we have loved have long vanished from the earth, then will the beloved voice come back and bring with it all our old tears and the disconsolate heart that sheds them.
[Voice]
|
|
|
|
When thou forgivest, the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm, that perforates the shell of the mussel, which straightway closes the wound with a pearl.
[Forgiveness]
|
|
|
|
Why does the evening, why does the night, put warmer love in our hearts? - Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? - Or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life, that veiling of the world in which, for the soul, nothing remains but souls?
|
|
|
|
With the people of courts the tongue is the artery of their withered life, the spiral spring and flag-feather of their souls.
|
|
|
|
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but are the first to rescue when others are endangered.
[Courage]
|
|
|
|
|
|