More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
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.
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.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
