Quotes by Joseph Roux

"Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired."

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"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."

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

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"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."

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"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."

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"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."

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