Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Sophie Swetchine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Frivolous
Part
Traveled
Adventure
Travel
Ones
Serious
Lives
Inspirational
More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
Sophie Swetchine
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
Sophie Swetchine
Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
Sophie Swetchine
I love victory, but I love not triumph.
Sophie Swetchine
It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
Sophie Swetchine
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
Sophie Swetchine
We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
Sophie Swetchine
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
Sophie Swetchine
Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
Sophie Swetchine
Piety softens all that courage bears.
Sophie Swetchine
Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
Sophie Swetchine
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
Sophie Swetchine
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
Sophie Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Sophie Swetchine
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Sophie Swetchine
What I value most next to eternity is time.
Sophie Swetchine
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
Sophie Swetchine
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Sophie Swetchine
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Sophie Swetchine
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
Sophie Swetchine
