George Sand Quotes about Heart

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The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

George Sand

Heart, Intellect

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

George Sand

Heart, Wrinkles

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

George Sand

Heart, Tears, My Heart

George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan”

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

George Sand

Regret, Struggle, Heart

I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.

George Sand

Believe, Heart, Character

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

George Sand

Heart, Affliction, Life Is

George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.316, Cosimo, Inc.

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

George Sand

Heart, May, Know How

George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

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.

George Sand

Heart, Men, Giving

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

George Sand

Heart, Law, Two

George Sand, Jane Minot Sedgwick (1893). “Fadette (La Petite Fadette): Tr. from the French by Jane Minot Sedgwick, with an Etching by E.Abot”, Boston, Little, Brown [c1893]

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

George Sand

Heart, Love And Friendship, And Love

O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.

George Sand

Heart, Love Is, Antidote

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

George Sand

Heart, Fighting, Sorrow

George Sand (1915). “... Fanchon the Cricket: Or Fadette”

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

George Sand

Heart, Attention, Moral

George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press