Alphonse Lamartine Quotations

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet