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Françoise Sagan QUOTES

Françoise Sagan QUOTES

1 " Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. "

― Françoise Sagan

2 " I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love. "

― Françoise Sagan

3 " Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. "

― Françoise Sagan

4 " For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

5 " I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. "

― Françoise Sagan

6 " For what Luc was in fact proposing was just a game, an enticing game, but, even so, one that could destroy my undoubtedly quite genuine feelings for Bertrand; and it could destroy something else within me, something ill-defined but fiercely felt, which, whether I liked it or not, was opposed to transience. Or, at the very least, to the intentionally transient nature of what Luc what was offering. And then, even if I was able to conceive of any passion or liaison as being short-lived, I couldn't accept in advance that it had to be that way. Like any individual for whom life is a series of charades, I could bear the charades only if they were written by me, and by me alone. "

― Françoise Sagan , A Certain Smile

7 " Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework. "

― Françoise Sagan

8 " Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an

9 " I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish. "

― Françoise Sagan

10 " There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an

11 " He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an

12 " We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an

13 " What we love we may also despise. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an

14 " A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

15 " Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an

16 " Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an

17 " Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an

18 " his conscience washed clean by happiness. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an

19 " Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter. "

― Françoise Sagan , That Mad Ache & Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation (Afterword)

20 " Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all of a sudden, there was an impelling necessity to go away, to give a continuation or a meaning to the winter that had just gone by. "

― Françoise Sagan , Dans un mois, dans un an