Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHAL
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
More Stendhal Quotes
-
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHAL -
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
STENDHAL -
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
STENDHAL -
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHAL -
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
STENDHAL -
I see but one rule: to be clear.
STENDHAL -
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
STENDHAL -
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
STENDHAL -
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
STENDHAL -
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
STENDHAL -
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
STENDHAL -
A good book is an event in my life.
STENDHAL -
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
STENDHAL -
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
STENDHAL -
Spring appears and we are once more children.
STENDHAL -
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
STENDHAL