Quote

Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.

Jules Renard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
Aphorist
Author
Diarist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
Thinking
Moonlight
Dreaming
Inner
Moon
Dream
Light
Think

More quotes by Jules Renard

Image
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
Jules Renard
Image
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
Jules Renard
Image
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard
Image
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Jules Renard
Image
if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
Jules Renard
Image
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
Jules Renard
Image
Don't tell a woman she's pretty tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Jules Renard
Image
If money does not make you happy, give it back
Jules Renard
Image
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
Image
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
Jules Renard
Image
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
Jules Renard
Image
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
Jules Renard
Image
God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
Jules Renard
Image
How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!
Jules Renard
Image
I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.
Jules Renard
Image
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
Jules Renard
Image
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
Jules Renard
Image
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
Jules Renard
Image
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Jules Renard
Image
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
Jules Renard