All Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
- One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance. Depends
- It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when… Addition
- I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night… All
- Habit has a kind of poetry. Habit
- It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency. Big
- Buying is profound pleasure. Buying
- To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love. Both
- The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet. Adventure
- From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. Ambiguity
- Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in… Abstract
- Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. Adrift
- When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his… Aging
- It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do… Assume
- Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be… Active
- It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral… Appear
- Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is… Been
- Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on… Die
- Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice. Injustice
- The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of… Accepted
- Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than… Age
- Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely. Conquered
- The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists… Accumulated
- That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what… Account
- Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. Capitalist
- The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude. American