Heloise > Quotes

“God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself. I wanted simply you, nothing of yours.”
― Heloise, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

“What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart....”
― Héloïse

“It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.”
― Heloise, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

“Pleasures tasted sparingly and with difficulty have always a higher relish, whilst everything that is easy and common grows stale and insipid.”
― Héloïse, Letters of Abelard and Heloise