Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

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

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sympathy, Death, Pain

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

• What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Happiness, Joy, Storm

• I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Believe, People, Joy

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.9

• Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Flames, Joy, Alive

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