La vie Quote by Michel Houellebecq Download Open image ““Quand on aime la vie, on ne lit pas.”” — Michel Houellebecq ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare La vie
“Quand on aimait, on aimait, et quand on n'avait rien d'autre à donner, on donnait son amour.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung. ( Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante. )” — Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
“On aime une femme pour ce qu'elle n'est pas ; on la quitte pour ce qu'elle est.” — Gainsbourg Serge Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“... I spent whole afternoons at Bon Marché looking at pullovers, there was no sense in going on like that.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share
Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Olga was nice, Olga was nice and loving, Olga loved him, he repeated to himself with a growing sadness as he also realised that nothing would ever happen between them again, life sometimes offers you a chance he thought, but when you are too cowardly or too indecisive to seize it life takes the cards away; there is a moment… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share
“The problem is, it's just not enough to live according to the rules. Sure, you manage to live according to the rules. Sometimes it's tight, extremely tight, but on the whole you manage it. Your tax papers are up to date. Your bills paid on time. You never go out without your identity card (and the special little wallet for… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share
“Life sometimes offers you a chance, he thought, but when you are too cowardly or too indecisive to seize it life takes the cards away; there is a moment for doing things and entering a possible happiness, and this moment lasts a few days, sometimes a few weeks or even a few months, but it happens once and one time… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share
“On rit dans le naufrage mais la galère a la vie longue. On ne sombre jamais d'un seul coup.” — Malek Haddad Copy Share Image
“La vie c’est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie, Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie, Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n’a point de loi… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
“Les contes de fées c'est comme ça. Un matin on se réveille. On dit: "Ce n'était qu'un conte de fées..." On sourit de soi. Mais au fond on ne sourit guère. On sait bien que les contes de fées c'est la seule vérité de la vie. Fairy tales are like that. One morning, we wake up and say, "It was… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. (La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie.)” — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Une maison sans chat, c'est la vie sans soleil. (A house without a cat is like live without sunshine.) -- One of Julia Child's favorite sayings.” — Therese Burson Copy Share
“On n'a personne à remercier, mais on remercie tout de même la vie pour la chance qu'elle nous a accordée, puis retirée.” — Monique LaRue Copy Share Image
Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.] — Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon Copy Share Image
Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Je pense, lui dis-je, que nous voilà, tous tant que nous sommes, à manger et à boire pour conserver notre précieuse existence et qu’il… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image