Cri de coeur Quotes

“Rain on your body burned my heart. (Pluie sur ton corps - Brûla mon coeur.)”

“In ocean of tears, the heart of stone sinks. (Dans l'océan de larmes, - Le coeur de pierre donc coule.)”

“Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate.”

“Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville.”

“Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.”

“At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless.”

“On se réconcilie avec un ennemi qui nous est inférieur pour les qualités du coeur ou de l'esprit ”

“Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.”

“She knew herself the heart of a king buried in a sepulchre (in the land of his love) while the body of the king is elsewhere. My heart lies buried in there like Coeur de Lion (or whoever it was) who had his heart buried at Havre (or wherever it was) and the rest of him buried somewhere else.”