Life Quotes by Muriel Barbery

“A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.”

— Muriel Barbery

Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.

— Muriel Barbery

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

— Muriel Barbery

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

— Muriel Barbery

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

— Muriel Barbery

“Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and…

— Muriel Barbery

“-and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.”

— Muriel Barbery

Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you…

— Muriel Barbery

“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.”

— Muriel Barbery

As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little…

— Muriel Barbery

“So much for the movement of the world! It could have been perfection and it was a disaster. It should be experienced…

— Muriel Barbery

. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where…

— Muriel Barbery

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something…

— Muriel Barbery

“Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born,…

— Muriel Barbery

“We live each day as if it were merely a rehearsal for the next, and the cosy existence at 7, rue de…

— Muriel Barbery

“This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner…

— Muriel Barbery

For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word 'never'. And it's really awful. You say the…

— Muriel Barbery

...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a…

— Muriel Barbery

“No one seems to have thought of the fact that life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than…

— Muriel Barbery

“No one is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics cannot relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they…

— Muriel Barbery

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in…

— Muriel Barbery

“Here are all these people, full of heartache or hatred or desire, and we all have our troubles and the school year…

— Muriel Barbery

“Just by observing the adults around me I understood very early on that life goes by in no time at all, yet…

— Muriel Barbery

In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch…

— Muriel Barbery

“The time of man is coming, and of this I am certain: neither death, nor life, nor the spirits, nor the present,…

— Muriel Barbery

Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and…

— Muriel Barbery

“Don't we all deal with life the way we do our military service? Doing what we can, while we wait either to…

— Muriel Barbery

“All our family acquaintances have followed the same path: their youth spent trying to make the most of their intelligence, squeezing their…

— Muriel Barbery

“There are times, however, when life becomes a phantom comedy. As if aroused from a dream, we watch ourselves in action and,…

— Muriel Barbery

“The gifts of fate come with a price. For those who have been favored by life’s indulgence, rigorous respect in matters of…

— Muriel Barbery

“In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way…

— Muriel Barbery

“The problem is that children believe what adults say and once they're adults themselves they exact their revenge by deceiving their own…

— Muriel Barbery

“Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without…

— Muriel Barbery

...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep…

— Muriel Barbery

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

— Muriel Barbery

Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.

— Muriel Barbery

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just…

— Muriel Barbery

How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what…

— Muriel Barbery

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead,…

— Muriel Barbery

If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that…

— Muriel Barbery