69+ Alfred De Musset Quotes On Romantic, Poetic And Melancholic

Alfred de Musset was a French writer who lived in the 19th century. He was primarily a poet and playwright, but was also known for his novels and short stories. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in French Romanticism. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alfred De Musset on love, romantic, poetic.

Top 10 Alfred De Musset Quotes

1. With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
2. Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
3. Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
4. Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
5. The only true language in the world is a kiss.
6. Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
7. life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
8. How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
9. The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
10. The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

Alfred De Musset Short Quotes

• Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
• There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
• Great artists have no country.
• How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.
• I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
• It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
• Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
• Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
• Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
• Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

Alfred De Musset Quotes About Love

The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine — Alfred De Musset

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew. — Alfred De Musset

The return makes one love the farewell. — Alfred De Musset

[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest? — Alfred De Musset

Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening. — Alfred De Musset

In love matters; keep your pen from paper. — Alfred De Musset

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart — Alfred De Musset

The only truth is love beyond reason. — Alfred De Musset

Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself. — Alfred De Musset

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved. — Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset Famous Quotes And Sayings

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers. — Alfred De Musset

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed. — Alfred De Musset

What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something. — Alfred De Musset

The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live. — Alfred De Musset

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back. — Alfred De Musset

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. — Alfred De Musset

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself. — Alfred De Musset

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them — Alfred De Musset

It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted. — Alfred De Musset

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me. — Alfred De Musset

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. — Alfred De Musset

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. — Alfred De Musset

Memory is what makes us young or old. — Alfred De Musset

The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near. — Alfred De Musset

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. — Alfred De Musset

One must not trifle with love. — Alfred De Musset

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher. — Alfred De Musset

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak. — Alfred De Musset

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest — Alfred De Musset

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day. — Alfred De Musset

Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day. — Alfred De Musset

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English. — Alfred De Musset

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value! — Alfred De Musset

What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it. — Alfred De Musset

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery. — Alfred De Musset

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering. — Alfred De Musset

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land. — Alfred De Musset

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man. — Alfred De Musset

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart. — Alfred De Musset

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. — Alfred De Musset

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. — Alfred De Musset

The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing. — Alfred De Musset

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand. — Alfred De Musset

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit. — Alfred De Musset

I have come too late into a world too old. — Alfred De Musset

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to? — Alfred De Musset

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings — Alfred De Musset

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood! — Alfred De Musset

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are! — Alfred De Musset

Life Lessons by Alfred De Musset

1. Alfred De Musset taught us to embrace life and its challenges, to never give up, and to always strive for something better.
2. He believed that life should be lived with passion and that we should never be afraid to take risks and to be true to ourselves.
3. He also taught us to appreciate the beauty in life, to be courageous and to never forget to enjoy the journey.