Death sympathy Quotes by Madame de Stael

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not…

— Madame de Stael

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

— Madame de Stael

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to…

— Madame de Stael

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It…

— Madame de Stael

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

— Madame de Stael

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

— Madame de Stael

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

— Madame de Stael

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

— Madame de Stael

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

— Madame de Stael

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

— Madame de Stael

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

— Madame de Stael

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

— Madame de Stael