Gustave Flaubert Quotes about Soul

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The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert

Soul, World, This World

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1982). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880”, p.205, Harvard University Press

Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

Gustave Flaubert

Respect, Hate, Soul

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert

Karma, Fathers Day, Soul

There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me

Gustave Flaubert

Crush, Two, Soul

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

Gustave Flaubert

Soul, Identity, Levels

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

Gustave Flaubert

Heart, Soul, Carrie

Gustave Flaubert (2015). “The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence”, p.1520, e-artnow

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Gustave Flaubert

Soul, Style, Flesh

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

Stars, Long, Soul

Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by Francis Steegmuller)