All Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
- That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. All
- On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but… Abase
- Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades,… Alike
- Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. Bent
- A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others… Able
- The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and… Adventure
- As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as… All
- A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes. Ashes
- Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. Consciousness
- What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty? Awaken
- He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are.… Different Kids
- He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each… Each
- In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it… Always Contradicting
- The body is the instrument of our hold on the world. Body
- The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;… Any
- Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure… Adventure
- And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to… Better
- The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It… Another Period
- All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s… All
- I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy. Feel
- There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. Existence
- You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes. Any
- A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into? Any
- Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed… All
- To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. Bad Day