Quote by Benjamin Constant Download Open image ““We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign”” — Benjamin Constant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“And by what secret differing springs are the affections hurried about, as differing circumstances present! To-day we love what to-morrow we hate- to-day we… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“We like it the way it is. We’re enjoying the oscillating balances, the ongoing war between good and evil, the wonderful small triumphs of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge of something… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“May we be...the ones who hold our opinions loosely and yet love ferociously.” — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“We do not think of it every day, but we never forget it: the beloved shall grow old, or ill, and be taken away… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“We need to imagine the turmoil, disappointment, worry and sheer confusion in people who may outwardly appear merely aggressive.” — The School of Life Copy Share Image
“We are men, all subject to errors. Our opinions are not in our power. They are formed and governed much by circumstances that are… — Davidson Butler Copy Share Image
“Our polarization, and the increasing reality that we simply don't know each other, makes it too easy to settle for dislike and contempt.” — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them. — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
“Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
“There is indeed in the contemplation of beauty of any kind, something which detaches us from ourselves by making us feel that perfection is… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
“I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it interesting to… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
“Consoler of our misery, religion is at the same time the most natural of our emotions. Unknown to us, all our physical sensations, all… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being. — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
“How would you define the impression of a dark night, of an ancient forest, of the wind moaning through ruins or over graves, of… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves. — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
