Quotes by
François-René de Chateaubriand |
1768-1848 , French poet & politician
French author, politician and diplomat, one of his country’s first Romantic writers. He was the preeminent literary figure in France in the early 19th century and had a profound influence on the youth of his day. | 16 quotes | 506 visits |
Quotations
| • | Man does not have one and the same life; he has several lifes placed end to end, and that is his misery. 3 |
| • | Love decreases when it stops growing. 2 |
| • | It is not man who stops time, it is time who stops man. 2 |
| • | Ancient Greek history is a poem. 1 |
| • | The goods of the earth only hollow the soul and increase its emptiness. |
| • | Everything happens through ideas, they produce facts, which serve them only as an envelope. |
| • | Sculpture gives soul to marble. |
| • | It is through death that morality entered life. |
| • | The more serious the face, the more beautiful the smile. |
| • | Moments of crisis produce a doubling of life in men. |
| • | True happiness costs little; if it is expensive, it is not of a good kind. |
| • | We are not capable of being unhappy for long. |
| • | Death does not reveal the secrets of life. |
| • | Man has only one real evil: the fear of death. Deliver him from this fear and you will set him free. |
| • | Forests precede peoples, deserts follow them. |
| • | France under Napoleon: slavery minus the shame. |
