Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything. George Sand More Quotes by George Sand More Quotes From George Sand O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote. George Sand antidote heart love-is The lessons of experience are always learned too late. George Sand experience lessons too-late It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door. George Sand home doors men ... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph? George Sand incomparable triumph childhood Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it. George Sand prudent insult hearing Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre. George Sand dream years thinking Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too. George Sand romantic-love darkness long God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains. George Sand fighting sorrow heart fretting at trouble only doubles it. George Sand fretting trouble The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. George Sand marriage-vows vow absurdity I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly. George Sand race kings wise He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand delight noble poetry The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. George Sand powerful writing men Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts. George Sand novel happens It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil. George Sand jealous the-end-of-the-day doubt a woman's heart has no wrinkles. George Sand wrinkles heart Sorrow makes us very good or very bad. George Sand very-good sorrow To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion. George Sand meals satisfaction together It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored. George Sand neglected ignored friends A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images. George Sand cigar hours sorrow
