The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

Quote by George Sand

Topics: George Sand Quotes

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I...

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I...

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Love is more tiring than friendship for it demands continuous proofs

Love is more tiring than friendship for it demands continuous proofs

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary...

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary...

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort...

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort...

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

No human creature can give orders to love.

No human creature can give orders to love.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment;...

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment;...