Top 120 Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We don’t have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don’t have any.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

2. “History teaches everything, even the future.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

3. “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

4. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

5. “Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

6. “There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

7. “Kindness is virtue itself.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

8. “True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

9. “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

10. “Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

11. “Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

12. “Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace...”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

13. “Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

14. “There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

15. “Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

16. “When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

17. “A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

18. “Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

19. “Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

20. “Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

21. “Utopias are often just premature truths.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

22. “Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

23. “To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

24. “All nature is the temple; earth the altar.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

25. “A woman’s strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

26. “If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

27. “The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

28. “Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

29. “We are earth’s children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

30. “Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

31. “Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

32. “Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind – it is only the difference in the victim.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

33. “An artist should have more than two eyes.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

34. “Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

35. “There is a woman at the begining of all great things.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

36. “Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

37. “Unanimity is the mistress of strength.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

38. “Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

39. “True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

40. “There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

41. “L’homme n’a point de port, le temps n’a point de rive.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

42. “Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

43. “We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

44. “Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

45. “Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend’s sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

46. “Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

47. “God – but a word invoked to explain the world.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

48. “The most effective coquetry is innocence.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

49. “Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

50. “History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine