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Quotes About Love

In love, a chance is faith's help to the women
~ Honore de Balzac
In spite of all this love-making, by the end of this year, as delightful as it was swift, Sommervieux felt one morning the need for resuming his work and his old habits. His wife was expecting their first child. He saw some friends again. During the tedious discomforts of the year when a young wife is nursing an infant for the first time, he worked, no doubt, with zeal, but he occasionally sought diversion in the fashionable world.
~ Honore de Balzac
L'amour est la poésie des sens.
~ Honore de Balzac
Then, as we desire all the more violently the things we find difficult to obtain, he continued to adore women with that ingenuous tenderness and feline delicacy the secret of which belongs to women themselves, who may, perhaps, prefer to keep the monopoly of it. In point of fact, though women of the world complain of the way men love them, they have little liking themselves for those whose soul is half feminine.
~ Honore de Balzac
Dac? inima omeneasc? afl? clipe de r?gaz în timp ce urc? pe culmile afec?iunii,rareori se opre?te pe povîrni?ul iute al sentimentelor du?m?noase.
~ Honore de Balzac
Para los enamorados es un placer infinito encontrar en los accidentes de un paisaje, en la transparencia del aire y en los aromas de la tierra la poesía que anida en su alma. La naturaleza habla por ellos.
~ Honore de Balzac
Déjeme respirar el aire del anochecer, oír el croar de las ranas, admirar los rayos de la luna que cabrillean en las aguas; déjeme que me detenga en esta naturaleza, donde creo ver mi felicidad escrita en cada cosa y que se me aparece por vez primera en todo su esplendor, iluminada por el amor, embellecida por usted.
~ Honore de Balzac
The poor man's heart was big with affections seeking an object; he had never been loved but by a poodle that had died some time since, of which he would talk to me, asking whether I thought the Church would allow masses to be said for the repose of its soul. His dog, said he, had been a good Christian, who for twelve years had accompanied him to church, never barking, listening to the organ without opening his mouth,
~ Honore de Balzac
As she recalled the early raptures of their union, she understood the full extent of that lost happiness, and accepted the conclusion that so rich a harvest of love was in itself a whole life, which only sorrow could pay for.
~ Honore de Balzac
Rosalie!' said I one evening. "'Your servant, sir?' "'You are not married?' She started a little. "'Oh! there is no lack of men if ever I take a fancy to be miserable!' she replied, laughing. She got over her agitation at once; for every woman, from the highest lady to the inn-servant inclusive, has a native presence of mind.
~ Honore de Balzac
Das Glück hat keine Geschichte, und die Erzähler aller Länder haben das so gut begriffen, dass der Satz "Sie wurden glücklich" alle Liebesabenteuer schließt.
~ Honore de Balzac
tengo más celos de un pensamiento que de todas las mujeres juntas. El amor es inmenso, pero no es infinito, mientras que la ciencia tiene profundidades sin límites a las que yo no podría verte ir solo.
~ Honore de Balzac
Nothing more clearly proves the necessity for indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion.
~ Honore de Balzac
En esta amistad, ya vieja, uno de los dos amaba con idolatría, y era David. Por ello Lucien mandaba como mujer que se sabe amada. David obedecía de buen grado.
~ Honore de Balzac
Some human beings obtain through love the power of transferring their self — their I — to the being of another; and when death takes that other, no life of their own is possible for them.
~ Honore de Balzac
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. How well I felt this difference when I read your kind, tender letter! To see you thus living in three hearts roused my envy. Yes, you are happy; you have had wisdom to obey the laws of social life, whilst I stand outside, an alien.
~ Honore de Balzac
Existe esa clase de goces que solamente pueden saborearse entre dos, de poeta a poeta, de corazón a corazón.
~ Honore de Balzac
Al principio de la pasión, los obstáculos asustan a las personas sin experiencia, y los que encontraban los dos amantes se parecían mucho a las ataduras con que los liliputienses habían atado a Gulliver. Eran cosas sin importancia que al multiplicarse hacían imposible todo impulso y anulaban los más violentos deseos.
~ Honore de Balzac
What does Madame Schinner say to all this?" pursued the count; "for I believe you married, out of love, the beautiful Adelaide de Rouville, the protegee of old Admiral de Kergarouet; who, by the bye, obtained for you the order for the Louvre ceilings through his nephew, the Comte de Fontaine.
~ Honore de Balzac
Muchas mujeres son tan exageradas en su culto, que quieren encontrar siempre un dios en su ídolo, mientras que las que aman a un hombre más por lo que es que por sí mismas adoran sus pequeñeces tanto como sus grandezas.
~ Honore de Balzac
El dolor dejó en el rostro de esta mujer un velo de tristeza. Esta nube no se disipó hasta la edad terrible en que la mujer comienza a añorar sus buenos tiempos pasados sin haberlos disfrutado, cuando ve marchitarse sus rosas y cuando los deseos del amor renacen con el ansia de prolongar las últimas sonrisas de la juventud.
~ Honore de Balzac
De entrada, intimidado por el alto rango de esta mujer, a Lucien le dominaron todos los terrores, las esperanzas y desesperanzas que acompañan al primer amor y lo sitúan de forma tan preeminente en el corazón por los golpes que alternativamente asestan el dolor y el placer.
~ Honore de Balzac
In his love for the fair young girl by his side, he was as fain to exalt the present moment as to dread the future. "She is happy to-day; will her happiness last?" he seemed to ask himself, for the old are somewhat prone to foresee their own sorrows in the future of the young.
~ Honore de Balzac
who had not felt his daughter's heart beat against his breast for ten years, "do you want me to die of joy?
~ Honore de Balzac