Lespinasse Quotes

#1. You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

Julie De Lespinasse

#2. I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death

Markus Zusak

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

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#4. I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

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

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#8. 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

#9. Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that crisis reaction has become a habit.

Melody Beattie

#10. 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

#11. You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

Richard Petty

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.

Robert Greenwald

#16. 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

#17. The logic of the heart is absurd

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#19. Some people had to bleed so other people could drink. Simple as that.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#20. Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman

#21. So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".

Tommy Cooper

#22. It is by man's own hand that he finds his destruction and it is by his own hand that he will find peace.

Aaron Ozee

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

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#24. 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

#25. Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

Martin Luther King Jr.