George Sand Heart Quotations

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.

O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.