Jean Paul Quotes About Time
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
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