Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame De StaelRead
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
Interpretation
What this quote means
A long-lasting relationship still holds moments of joy, like flowers blooming in winter.
This quote highlights the enduring beauty and sweetness of a marital relationship, regardless of its duration. It suggests that even in challenging times, represented by 'winter', there are still bright moments and joys, akin to flowers that bloom despite the cold and snow.
Themes
LoveMarriageRelationshipsEnduranceJoy
In practice
Example use cases
This could be shared during a wedding toast to emphasize the beauty of lasting love.
More from Madame De Stael
All quotes βWhen at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
Madame De StaelRead
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Madame De StaelRead
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
Madame De StaelRead
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame De StaelRead
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame De StaelRead
Similar quotes
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .
Saint AugustineRead
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert BrowningRead
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel ProustRead
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
Audre LordeRead
All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.
RumiRead
True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships.
Jeffrey R. HollandRead