Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAfter a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
-
-
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT