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
Hard
Schadenfreude
People
Unhappiness
Forgive
Forgiving
Especially
Respect
Success
Find

More quotes by 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
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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
When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.
Francoise Sagan
Image
It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
Francoise Sagan
Image
When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.
Francoise Sagan
Image
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
Image
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
Francoise Sagan
Image
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
Image
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
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
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
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front a writer puts on the face of reality.
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
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
Image
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Francoise Sagan
Image
It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
Francoise Sagan