Quotes by Joseph Roux

“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills”

“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”

“When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.”

“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.”

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence”

“Evil often triumphs, but never conquers”

“What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions”

“I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy”

“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”

“Solitude is the place of purification.”

“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”

What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

We call that person who has lost his father an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.

Friendship admits of difference of character as love does that of sex.

When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.

At first we hope too much later on not enough.