More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
