216 Quotes by Madame de Stael

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.