Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Writer
November 7, 1838 - August 19, 1889

Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Brunettes are full of electricity.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam