René Quotes

“One is not, my dear sir, a superior man merely because one sees the world in an odious light. One only hates mankind and life itself through failing to look deeply enough.”
― Chateaubriand, Rene

“Hesitating, at the threshold of various illusory paths of life, I considered them one by one, without daring to pursue any one of them.”
― Chateaubriand, Rene

“Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du débris des âges, l'autre n'a pas encore reçu sa perfection de l'avenir.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, René

“I was simply occupied with tailoring myself to society's standard.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, René

“ô enfance du coeur humain qui ne vieillit jamais! voilà donc à quel degré de puérilité notre superbe raison peut descendre! Et encore est-il vrai que bien des hommes attachent leur destinée à des choses d'aussi peu de valeur que mes feuilles de saule.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, René

“The forces of nature and the feebleness of man: a weed often pierces the solid marble of those tombs, that all the dead, once so powerful, cannot now remove.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, René

“Plus notre coeur est tumultueux et bruyant, plus le calme et le silence nous attirent.”
― Chateaubriand, Rene

“Levantai-vos breve, ó desejadas tempestades que deveis transportas René para os céus de uma vida diferente,”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, René

“Sometimes a tall column stood alone in the wilderness, as a great thought stands alone in the soul which time and sorrow have crushed.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, René

“There and then I promptly resolved to end, in rural exile, a career scarcely begun, in which I had already consumed centuries.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, René

“Homem, tua estação migratória ainda não chegou. Espera que se levante o vento da morte, então desferirás o teu vôo para esses países ignorados que o teu coração deseja.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, René