Pascal Bruckner

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

— Pascal Bruckner

“Some people's happiness is always other people's kitsch.”

— Pascal Bruckner

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

— Pascal Bruckner

“Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside”

— Pascal Bruckner

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

— Pascal Bruckner

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a…

— Pascal Bruckner

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

— Pascal Bruckner

“Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat…

— Pascal Bruckner

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

— Pascal Bruckner

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

— Pascal Bruckner

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal…

— Pascal Bruckner

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

— Pascal Bruckner

“In the eighteenth century, historians tell us, 'valentinage,' from which Valentine's Day was derived, allowed wives in northern France to make love,…

— Pascal Bruckner

You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will…

— Pascal Bruckner

“The 'destiny that eyes us from the future' makes us neglect our duties to those close to us. Third-Worldism stressed the crimes…

— Pascal Bruckner

You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is…

— Pascal Bruckner

“Turistii se adunau de acum in batalioane organizate inaintea catedralei, mitraliindu-I fatada cu o docilitate unaninma. In sort sau in bermude atacau…

— Pascal Bruckner

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask,…

— Pascal Bruckner

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the…

— Pascal Bruckner

“As good heirs of the Bible, we think that a great misfortune necessarily follows a great infraction. In this respect the intellectual…

— Pascal Bruckner

“The obsession with security at any price petrifies us, and we increase our fear by trying to eliminate risk. That is what…

— Pascal Bruckner

“Worrying about what does not yet exist, is that a gesture of love or the worst kind of argument putting pressure on…

— Pascal Bruckner

By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure…

— Pascal Bruckner

Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to…

— Pascal Bruckner

There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different…

— Pascal Bruckner

“Thus it takes the imminence of an infinite calamity to redeem the human adventure. On this level our age testifies to a…

— Pascal Bruckner

“Totusi, destul de iute simplicitatea actului sexual m-a plictisit; in cele mai rele excese percepeam monotonie si patos mult. Oricat de puternica…

— Pascal Bruckner

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of…

— Pascal Bruckner