Gustave Flaubert: Quotes about heart

Gustave Flaubert was French writer (1821–1880). Explore interesting quotes on heart.
Gustave Flaubert: 196   quotes 11   likes

“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”

Gustave Flaubert

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857

Star , Tear , Water , Heart

“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”

Gustave Flaubert
Sadness , Winter , Heart

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Love , Life , Heart

“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

Love , Heart

“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Pain , Disappointment , Success , Heart

“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”

Gustave Flaubert book Sentimental Education

Source: Sentimental Education

Intelligence , Heart

“for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Life , Heart