# Lamartine's most famous lines

'O time, suspend your flight', 'One person is missing and the whole world is empty', 'Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens': the lines of Lamartine's Poetic Meditations (1820) that are still quoted, checked against the original edition.

- 3 votes · 12 items
- Aug 26, 2022 · Simon Gagné
- https://even.best/en/l/4668/lamartine-s-most-famous-lines

## Top 12

1. **So, forever driven towards new shores, swept into eternal night with no return…** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 'The Lake', first lines.
2. **O lake! The year has barely run its course** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 'The Lake'.
3. **The sun of the living no longer warms the dead.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 'Isolation'.
4. **O time, suspend your flight! And you, propitious hours, suspend your course!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'The Lake'.
5. **Man has no harbour, time has no shore; it flows, and we pass on!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'The Lake'.
6. **Let everything say: They loved!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'The Lake', last line.
7. **Often on the mountain, in the shade of the old oak, at sunset I sadly sit down** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'Isolation', first lines.
8. **One person is missing, and the whole world is empty.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'Isolation'.
9. **Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'Man', addressed to Byron.
10. **I die and do not know what it is to be born.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'Man'.
11. **My heart, weary of everything, even of hope, will no longer trouble fate with its wishes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'The Valley', first lines.
12. **Hail, woods crowned with the last of the green! Yellowing leaves scattered on the grass!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 'Autumn', first lines.

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