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Bonjour tristesse QUOTES

Bonjour tristesse QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " Pour la première fois de ma vie, ce "moi" semblait se partager et la découverte d'une telle dualité m'étonnait prodigieusement. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

4 " On s'habitue aux défauts de
les autres quand on ne se sent pas obligé
pour les corriger. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

5 " But, more than anything, I feared boredom and repose. To be inwardly reposeful, my father and I needed to be outwardly in ferment. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

6 " On s’habitue aux défauts des autres quand on ne croit pas de son devoir de les corriger. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

7 " De la désirer peu à peu plus que n'importe quoi, de la désirer du double désir que l'on porte à la chose interdite. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

8 " It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

9 " My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

10 " I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

11 " He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

12 " For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

13 " What you call types of mind are only mental ages. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

14 " I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

15 " Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

16 " He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

17 " La liberté de penser, et de mal penser et de penser peu, la liberté de choisir moi-même ma vie, de me choisir moi-même. Je ne peux dire ˝d´être moi-même˝, puisque je n´étais rien qu´une pâte modelable, mais celle de refuser les moules. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

18 " Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other...It's something different... a sense of loss... "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

19 " Cynicism always enchanted me by producing a delicious feeling of self-assurance and of being in league with myself "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse

20 " I saw an exquisite pink and blue shell on the sea-bottom. I dove for it, and held it, smooth and hollow in my hand all the morning. I decided it was a lucky charm, and that I would keep it. I am surprised that I have not lost it, for I lose everything. Today it is still pink and warm as it lies in my palm, and makes me feel like crying. "

― Françoise Sagan , Bonjour tristesse