Collection Quotes by Edith Piaf

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

— Edith Piaf

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

— Edith Piaf

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

— Edith Piaf

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

— Edith Piaf

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

— Edith Piaf

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

— Edith Piaf

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

— Edith Piaf

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

— Edith Piaf

For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

— Edith Piaf

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

— Edith Piaf

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

— Edith Piaf

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

— Edith Piaf