Quote

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Honore de Balzac

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
Art Critic
Dramaturge
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Tours
France
Balzac
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
Lord R'Hoone
Ônôrē de Balzaq
Jeune ceélibataire
Onore de Balzak
Honorato De Balzac
H. Balzak
Honoreé De Balzac
H. Balzac
Horace de S.- Aubin
Honoriusz Balzac
Un Jeune ceélibataire
Lord O'Rhoone
Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
R'Hoone
Onore de Bal'zak
Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
de. Balzac
Life
Suitable
Skeptical
Paris
Suicide
Keys
Mystery
Society
Vogue
Time
Moreover

More quotes by Honore de Balzac

Image
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
Honore de Balzac
Image
But woman brings disorder into society through passion.
Honore de Balzac
Image
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
Honore de Balzac
Image
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
Honore de Balzac
Image
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
Honore de Balzac
Image
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
Honore de Balzac
Image
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?
Honore de Balzac
Image
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
Honore de Balzac
Image
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Give to a wounded heart seclusion consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
Honore de Balzac
Image
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.
Honore de Balzac
Image
God is the poet men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de Balzac
Image
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
Honore de Balzac
Image
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
Honore de Balzac
Image
A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
Honore de Balzac
Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
Honore de Balzac