Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Relationship #Hate #Love You
The logic of the heart is absurd
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Heart #Logic #Absurd
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Believe #Relaxation #Calm
You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Friendship #Sweet #Soul
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Love #Despair #Excess
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Hate #Self #Feelings
Oh! how many times we die before death!
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Before Death #Dies
nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Giving #Feelings #Stronger
Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#How To Love #Faculty #Wells
none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Friends #Soul #Suffering
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Oil #Gossip #Calumny
Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Soul #Mind #Doe
I read what I feel, and not what I see.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Reading #Feels
Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Tragedy #Needs #How To Love

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