Quote of Madame de Staël - Love is the emblem of eternity...
Biography - Madame de Staël:
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, née Necker, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters and political theorist.
Born: 1766 - Died: 1817
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1766 - Died: 1817
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: France
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about love:
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Quotes about time:
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Quotes about eternity:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Quotes about fear:
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Quotes for: Forgetting
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Madame de Staël also said...
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