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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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.
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
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.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
