Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! "

Related Quotes:

" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "

" Liberation is not deliverance. "

" The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. "

" Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. "

" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "

" What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. "

" A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. "

" A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. "

" There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. "

" It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. "

" Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. "

" Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. "

" I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. "

" A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. "

" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "

" Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. "

" It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. "

" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "

" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "

" Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. "

" An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. "

" Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. "

" Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. "

Doing The Right Thing

" The learned man knows that he is ignorant. "

" Taste is the common sense of genius. "

" There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. "

" What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. "

" Despotism is a long crime. "

" Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. "

" Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "