Desbordes Quotes & Sayings

Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes? — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Are we not like two volumes of one book? — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

I'm making art.
Terra — Justina Chen Headley

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble. — Jeffrey Kluger

Two hearts in love need no words. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Money demoralizes even the giver. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

We must make our lives as we sew, stitch by stitch. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Hmm ... well that would be good, but if you plan on adding that, better include the lanczos option (for good quality). — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

The place of connection or separation in relationship to your own being, the place in your self where this occurs, is in your heart. — John De Ruiter

Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things ... — Dolly Parton

An attack of hope is the same for us as an attack of fever. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

The Roses of Saadi
I wanted you to have roses this morn,
And stuffed a lot of them in my snug dress,
In my tight belt I could not all shoehorn.
The knots gave way, and threw them all around,
To wind and sea they were all gone forlorn
To flow with water, never will come round.
The waves were crimson red as if on fire.
This eve my dress is drenched in their fragrance,
Breathe it and keep it to your heart's desire. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

For one hit he'd done a version of Victor/Victoria, pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man when he'd been hired to kill a paranoid and heavily guarded government official. — Pauline Baird Jones