Lespinasse Quotes & Sayings

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

None but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Oh! how many times we die before death! — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I read what I feel, and not what I see. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. — Julie De Lespinasse

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul? — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

The logic of the heart is absurd — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse