Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Animal, Two

• Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Love, Heart, Dawn

• 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

• Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Music, Art, Literature

• We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Animal, Men

• Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Friendship, Sweet, Heart

• The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Fall, Angel, Heart

• There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Men, Soul

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

• God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Genius

• The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Men, Emotion

• It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Long, Rose

• 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.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Spring, Heart, Sacrifice

• Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Men, Imagination

• Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Lips, Eloquence

• 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?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Grieving, Eden

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “Memory and Hope”

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