Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love.—The shores of existence are strewn with them.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Disappointment, Life
The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Woman
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Wisdom
O, Memory, thou bitter-sweet—both a joy and a scourge.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Memory
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Innocence
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, takes from attention its strength, from thought its originality, from feeling its earnestness.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Men
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Difficulty, Existence
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Public opinion, Opinion
Enthusiasm signifies God in us.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Enthusiasm, Passion
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Eternity, Love, Marriage
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Truth
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Death
I do not believe in ghosts, but i am awfully afraid of them.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Feelings
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Genius
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
The more we know, the better we forgive.—Whoe’er feels deeply, feels for all that live.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Forgiveness
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Prayer
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Religion, Boredom
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies “God in us.”
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Enthusiasm
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Aging, Age
Love, which is only an episode in the life of a man, is the entire history of woman’s life.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Woman, Love
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Humor, Wit
Speech happens to not be his language
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Speech
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Prejudice
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Prayer
I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity, than the Lord’s prayer.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Prayer
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Love
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