36 Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

Alphonse de Lamartine quotes

1. O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!

2. I say to this night: 'Pass more slowly'; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.

3. Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

4. Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.

5. Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

6. What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

7. Experience is the only prophesy of wise men.

8. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

9. The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

10. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

11. A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

12. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

13. If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

14. Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

15. Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

16. There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

17. Our only truth is our sorrow.

18. What crime have we commited in order to be born?

19. God is nothing but a dream word, in order to explain the existence of the world.

20. I am tired of museums - these cemeteries of art.

1. It is for truth that God created genius.

2. Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

3. History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

4. Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

5. Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

6. Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

7. I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

8. The most effective coquetry is innocence.

9. Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.

10. True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

11. At twenty every one is republican.

12. We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.

13. Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?

14. Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

15. True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

16. Man is God by his faculty for thought.