Romance Quote by Honoré de Balzac — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”

“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”

“Glory is the sunshine of the dead”

“I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea”

“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.”

“I can live with you hating me," he said to the closed door.”

“I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don’t know what to do with it. This cannot be easy. But still, you touch me anyway.”

“Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.”

“A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.”