Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)

Character in Madame Bovary From: Madame Bovary

The omniscient narrator providing philosophical observations and social commentary

471 quotes

"She sought in marriage the happiness that love should bring."
Love
"Mediocrity was her constant torment."
Life
"The beautiful is only the beginning of the terrible."
Beauty
"She was incapable of understanding contentment."
Happiness
"Words are the shadows of reality."
Truth
"One cannot escape one's own nature."
Philosophy
"She preferred passion to peace."
Love
"Life teaches us through suffering."
Wisdom
"How often do our actions betray our intentions?"
Truth
"She was a woman of impossible desires."
Dreams
"The written word often deceives us more than speech."
Literature
"Nothing is so destructive as illusion."
Wisdom
"She measured her life against novels rather than reality."
Imagination
"The pursuit of happiness often leads to misery."
Happiness
"Hearts break silently, often unnoticed."
Relationships
"She was always reaching for something beyond her grasp."
"Fidelity is a virtue few possess and fewer value."
"What we imagine is often more real to us than what exists."
Imagination
"Society's chains are often of our own forging."
Freedom
"She could not bear the weight of ordinary life."
Life
"Truth is often hidden beneath layers of self-deception."
Truth
"Why must we always want what we cannot have?"
"The past haunts us more than the future promises."
Time
"Love is the wound that never truly heals."
Love
"She lived for ecstasy and died for it."
Life
"Dreams are the only freedom we truly possess."
Dreams
"The heart knows its own corruption."
"Life's greatest tragedy is wasted potential."
Wisdom
"She was enslaved by her own imagination."
Imagination
"One cannot unlearn the taste of forbidden fruit."