Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Henri Frederic Amiel
Age: 59 †
Born: 1821
Born: September 27
Died: 1881
Died: May 11
Diarist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Genève
Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Smile
Secret
Misunderstood
Understand
Bitterness
Great
Melancholy
Even
Cross
Men
Crosses
Life
Lips
Loves
More quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
Henri Frederic Amiel
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
Henri Frederic Amiel
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
Henri Frederic Amiel
The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
Henri Frederic Amiel
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
Henri Frederic Amiel
What governs men is the fear of truth.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel
When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
Henri Frederic Amiel
