Honore de Balzac Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

• Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hate, Hatred, Soul

• Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

  Honore de Balzac

  Soul, Sorrow, Bed

• All we are is in the soul.

  Honore de Balzac

  Soul

• A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Voice, Echoes, Faithful

• The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Soul, Literature, Habit

  "The Vicar of Tours". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1832.

• Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Exercise, Equality

• Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Sea, Soul

• Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

  Honore de Balzac

  Soul, Virtue, Lofty

• Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

  Honore de Balzac

  Voice, Soul, Desert

• Sensuality is the death of the soul.

  Honore de Balzac

  Soul, Sensuality

• Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

  Honore de Balzac

  Space, Soul, Wells

• Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

  Honore de Balzac

  Soul, Literature, Virtue

  Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.66, Library of Alexandria

• Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Spring, Ocean

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.121, The Floating Press

• 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

• But does not happiness come from the soul within?

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Soul, Doe

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.76, The Floating Press

• With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

  Honore de Balzac

  Punishment, Expectations, Soul

• I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Witty, Power

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.92, The Floating Press

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