George Sand Quotes - Page 4

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Lying, like license, has its degrees.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.