All Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
- There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into… Accident
- No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely… Authorized
- People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls. Automatically
- To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses'… Abuse
- To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an… Able
- A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong. Funny
- Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched,… Ah
- However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of… Born
- It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it… Affirm
- To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare,… Ability
- Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not… Been
- Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it;… Accomplishment
- Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart. Heart
- No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. Existence
- The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can… Achieved
- The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever… Absurd
- Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. Consolation
- The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. Death
- Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. Collectivity
- Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours... Arbitrary
- There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him… Bring
- Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. Anger
- Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered.… Amazement
- Old age is life's parody. Age
- Live with no time-out. Funny