Honore de Balzac Life Quotations

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.