Honore de Balzac Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mom, Mother, Fashion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.183, The Floating Press

• Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

  Honore de Balzac

  Joy, Sorrow, Excess

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.259, The Floating Press

• A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Drama, Long

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

• Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

  Honore de Balzac

  Keys, Joy, Intellectual

  "The Wild Ass's Skin". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1831.

• The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

  Honore de Balzac

  Joy, Soul, Taste

• All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fate, Men, Joy

• To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

  Honore de Balzac

  Live Life, Passion, Eye

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