306 Quotes by Henri Frédéric Amiel

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.