Alfred de Musset Quotes

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

Great artists have no country.

Memory is what makes us young or old.

Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep

I have come too late into a world too old.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.