156 Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.

I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.