Quote #10
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
More from Alphonse de Lamartine
- The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
- A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
- To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
- Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
- Experience is the only prophesy of wise men.
- If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
- What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
- Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.