Gustave Flaubert Quotes

“For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat, and he reproached himself with not loving her.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:love

“Then she fell back exhausted, for these transports of vague love wearied her more than great debauchery.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:love

“She only wished to lean on something more solid than love.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:love

“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

topic:love passion

“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:life heart darkness boredom

“There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:death

“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:death

“But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:happiness desire despair

“It is so sweet, amid all the disenchantments of life, to be able to dwell in thought upon noble characters, pure affections, and pictures of happiness.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:happiness

“Nor had I reflected upon this at first, and I rested in the shade of that ideal happiness as beneath that of the manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:happiness

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