George Sand Is Quotations

Not to love is to cease to live.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.