Alfred de Musset quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Alfred de Musset has a lot to say. In this list we present the 14 best Alfred de Musset quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Alfred de Musset quotes
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
— Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
— Alfred de Musset
Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
— Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
— Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio
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
— Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio
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, Fantasio
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
— 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, Lorenzaccio
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, Lorenzaccio
Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?
— Alfred de Musset
Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.
— Alfred de Musset
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
— Alfred de Musset
Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
— Alfred de Musset
One must not trifle with love.
— Alfred de Musset
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
— Alfred de Musset
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