All Muriel Barbery Quotes
- ...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just… Actually Needs
- ..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that… Alive
- We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think… Bodies
- ..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's… Always Ends
- I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it. Place
- Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged… All
- When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black. Black
- Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments… Always Within
- I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their… All
- People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time. Children
- I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess - Appearance
- ...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable… Anomalies
- But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be… Bug
- We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish… Accomplish
- They didn't recognize me," I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. "It is because they have never seen you," he… Anywhere
- Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls. Beautiful
- When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where… Bother
- There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our… Beauty
- If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my… Any
- As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to… All
- As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering. Christian
- Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can… Beauty
- What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it. Aristocrat
- Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat… Absolutely
- Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation.… Assigned