You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIs suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
-
-
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
There are no ordinary cats.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
Hope costs nothing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE