Jean Paul Quotes

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do.

Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Words are loaded pistols.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Because we can imagine, we are free.

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Fashion is not art. Never.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Nothingness haunts Being.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

I may not be a pin-up, but I'm one hell of a boxer.

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

My eccentricity became direction.

A sky full of silent suns.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.