Desbordes Valmore 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

The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles. — Christine M. Knight

Y'know, Nature's unpredictable
that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision. — Jeanette Winterson

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

This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place. — Nidesh Lawtoo

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company. — Publilius Syrus

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way. — Mark Ruffalo

You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune. — 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

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

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American. — Ronald Reagan

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

Kira knew that his tounge felt like a vibrator set to the speed of Oh Hell Yeah — Jeaniene Frost

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

Money demoralizes even the giver. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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

But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with actual ethical critique, rationalizing their emotional response, and enforcing their moral certainties with passion, establishing them-selves, subtly or brutally, as arbiters of reason. — Hal Duncan

Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth — Shane Koyczan

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune. — Irving Harper