Alfred de Musset quotes

Alfred de Musset was a French poet, playwright, and novelist, associated with the Romantic movement. His passionate and introspective works have made him a central figure in 19th-century French literature. He is remembered for his lyrical poetry and influential dramas that explored the depths of human emotion. Here are 15 of his quotes:

Great artists have no country.

Alfred de Musset

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

Alfred de Musset

The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.

Alfred de Musset

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Alfred de Musset

The return makes one love the farewell.

Alfred de Musset

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Alfred de Musset

One must not trifle with love.

Alfred de Musset

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Alfred de Musset

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Alfred de Musset

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred de Musset

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

Alfred de Musset

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Alfred de Musset

So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray Old love is born anew.

Alfred de Musset