Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.
Francoise Sagan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Francoise Sagan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: June 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 24
Biographer
Film Director
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
Without
Spell
Well
Spells
Even
Indispensable
Life
Salt
Along
Passion
Times
Wells
More quotes by Francoise Sagan
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.
Francoise Sagan
Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
Francoise Sagan
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
Francoise Sagan
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
Francoise Sagan
I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.
Francoise Sagan
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
Francoise Sagan
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
Francoise Sagan
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Francoise Sagan
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
Francoise Sagan
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.
Francoise Sagan
I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
Francoise Sagan
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.
Francoise Sagan
I have loved to the point of madness That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
Francoise Sagan
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
Francoise Sagan
The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
Francoise Sagan
happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Francoise Sagan
I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
Francoise Sagan
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
Francoise Sagan
