Xavier de Maistre Quotes

France, Military Officer
October 10, 1763 – June, 12, 1852.

Xavier de Maistre lived largely as a military man, but is known as a French writer. The younger brother of noted philosopher and counter-revolutionary Joseph de Maistre, Xavier was born to an aristocratic family at Chambéry in October 1763.

Also known as Writer, Painter

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

Xavier de Maistre
- Reality
- Imagination
When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.

Xavier de Maistre
- World
- Love
- Tears

After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn’t have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.

Xavier de Maistre
- Person
- Unhappy
- Abandoned
Ephemeral spectator of an eternal spectacle, man raises for a second his eyes to Heaven, and closes them for ever; but, during that rapid second that is granted to him, from all the quarters of Heaven, and from the outer limits of the Universe, a consoling ray darts from each world and meets his eyes, to announce to him that some connection exists between him and infinity, and that even he is linked to eternity.

Xavier de Maistre
- Eyes
- Heaven
- Eternal