George Sand famous quotes

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
-- George Sand

#Love #Life #Friendship

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
-- George Sand

#Life #Inspirational Life #Writing

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
-- George Sand

#Angel #Views #Surprise

I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.
-- George Sand

#Believe #Angel #Men

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
-- George Sand

#Helping Others #Humanity #Trying

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
-- George Sand

#Flower #Butterfly #Feelings

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
-- George Sand

#Kindness #Regret #Giving

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

#Happy #People #Common

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
-- George Sand

#Aggravation #Charity

I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.
-- George Sand

#Believe #Heart #Character

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
-- George Sand

#Beautiful #Art #Phrases

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine
-- George Sand

#Passion #Divine #Capacity

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.
-- George Sand

#Doe #World #Matter

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
-- George Sand

#Prayer #World #Lovers

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
-- George Sand

#Selfish #Self #Self Respect

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
-- George Sand

#Happiness #Lying #Consciousness

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
-- George Sand

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Simplicity

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
-- George Sand

#Heart #May

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
-- George Sand

#Passion #Writing #Tasks

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.
-- George Sand

#Heart #Law #Two

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
-- George Sand

#Different #Aging #Old Woman

No human creature can give orders to love.
-- George Sand

#Order #Giving #Humans

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
-- George Sand

#Cat #Angel #Devil

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
-- George Sand

#Kindness #Regret #Thoughtful

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
-- George Sand

#Funny #Wisdom #Mistake

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Strength

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

#Poetry #Noble #Delight

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
-- George Sand

#Beauty #Eye #Soul

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
-- George Sand

#Hands #Knowing #Humanity

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

#Writing #Obsession #Violent

Not to love is to cease to live.
-- George Sand

#Love Is

When they are among us cats are angels
-- George Sand

#Cat #Angel #Pet

nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.
-- George Sand

#Sweet #Nature #Stars

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
-- George Sand

#Prison #Concerned

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

#Together #Satisfaction #Meals

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
-- George Sand

#Vanity #Reason #Quicksand

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.
-- George Sand

#Ice #Darkness #World

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
-- George Sand

#Believe #Men #Justice

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
-- George Sand

#Forgiveness #Self #Sublime

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 #Doubt #The End Of The Day

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
-- George Sand

#Birthday #Soul #Trying

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.
-- George Sand

#Sacrifice #Mind #Earth

Party politics is now a real farce.
-- George Sand

#Real #Party #Farce

We must have a passion in life.
-- George Sand

#Passion

We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ...
-- George Sand

#Writing #Cutting #Liberty

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.
-- George Sand

#Ocean #Writing #Mean

art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ...
-- George Sand

#Art #Nature #Mind

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past ...
-- George Sand

#Memories #Past #Past Memories

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!
-- George Sand

#Jealousy #Jealous #Being Jealous

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.
-- George Sand

#Sex #Men #Mind

When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.
-- George Sand

#Fighting #Effort #Causes

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
-- George Sand

#Vow #Marriage Vows #Absurdity

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.
-- George Sand

#Leadership #Light #Torches

almost all novels are love stories.
-- George Sand

#Stories #Love Story #Novel

If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
-- George Sand

#Love #Men #Law

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
-- George Sand

#Wisdom #Wall #Men

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
-- George Sand

#Inspirational Love #Kindness #Treasure