Alfred de Musset Quotes

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Alfred de Musset

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• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Emotional
  • Painful
  • Luxury

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• That's painful always to lose.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Always
  • Lose
  • Painful

• Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Collaboration
  • Painful

• What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Memories
  • Painful
  • Slightly

• Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I spoke last night with many of my counterparts and without exception there was overwhelming support for this action by the military coalition consisting of the United States and the United Kingdom.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Night
  • Action
  • Support

• Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Painful
  • Passage
  • Rite

• Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Good
  • Job
  • Hope

• Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Management
  • Manage
  • Humorous

• Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • She
  • Kids
  • Painful

• Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

  

  Zanele Muholi
  • Artist
  • Fine
  • Painful

• Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fear
  • Peace
  • Spiritual

• In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • World
  • Dream
  • Kind

• We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

  

  Euripides
  • Death
  • Life is
  • Glorious

• The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Simple
  • Path
  • Tragic

• As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Painful
  • Significant

• I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

  

  Nicos Anastasiades
  • Tomorrow
  • Painful
  • Obliged

• If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.

  

  Clara Barton
  • War
  • History
  • Earth

• Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Feels
  • Acting
  • Embarrassed

• Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

  

  Plotinus
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Self-ignorance

• How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Painful
  • Exception
  • Glorious