44 Quotes by Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset was a French playwright, poet, and novelist who lived in the 19th century. He was a prominent figure in the Romantic movement, which emphasized emotion, individualism, and the imagination. De Musset’s works are known for their introspective nature and exploration of personal relationships and experiences. He had a significant impact on French literature and is still widely read and studied today. (Bio)
Alfred de Musset Quotes
With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
I don’t know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
The only true language in the world is a kiss.
Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. (Meaning)
The only truth is love beyond reason.
In my flowery dreams there’s always you. I do not regret it one bit.
How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.
life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
Memory is what makes us young or old.
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
The soft contralto notes of a woman’s voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
Great artists have no country.
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
The return makes one love the farewell. (Meaning)
I cannot help it – in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
I have come too late into a world too old.
One must not trifle with love
The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them
In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
Things they don’t understand always cause a sensation among the English.
I can’t help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
― Alfred de Musset Quotes
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