Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Love Quotes

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Love, that is but an episode in the life of man, is the entire story of the life of woman.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The more I see of other countries, the more I love my own.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature—liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is but an episode in a man's.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Life often seems but a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, glory, and love: the shores of our existence are strewn with them.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël