Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse Quotes

#1. I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#2. If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#3. Oh! how many times we die before death!

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#4. The logic of the heart is absurd

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#5. Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#6. Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#7. None but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#8. You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#9. Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#10. I read what I feel, and not what I see.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#11. Nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#12. Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#13. I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse