Explore Quotes by George Sand

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

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

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

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Years do not always make age.

Nature distributes her favors unequally.

I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

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.

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

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.