Life Quotes Quote by Gustave Flaubert — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.”

“I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room”

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”

“He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides”

“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”

“And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”

“The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.”

“Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.”