255 Quotes by George Sand

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.