Madame de Stael Life Quotations

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.