Quote

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

Alphonse de Lamartine

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
Happy
May
Time
Love
Heartless

More quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine

Image
Man is God by his faculty for thought.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Ink is the transcript of thought.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine