Quote

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

Francoise Sagan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Forgive
Forgiving
Especially
Respect
Success
Find
Hard
Schadenfreude
People
Unhappiness

More quotes by Francoise Sagan

Image
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
Image
happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
Francoise Sagan
Image
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
Francoise Sagan
Image
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
Francoise Sagan
Image
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
Francoise Sagan
Image
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
Francoise Sagan
Image
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
Image
I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
Francoise Sagan
Image
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
Francoise Sagan
Image
At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
Francoise Sagan
Image
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Francoise Sagan
Image
A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
Francoise Sagan
Image
The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan