Quote

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

Muriel Barbery

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Supersonic
Overwhelms
Melancholy
Speed

More quotes by Muriel Barbery

Image
Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
Muriel Barbery
Image
It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
Muriel Barbery
Image
The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.
Muriel Barbery
Image
If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?
Muriel Barbery
Image
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
Muriel Barbery
Image
The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
Muriel Barbery
Image
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
Muriel Barbery
Image
If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Art is emotion without desire.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
Muriel Barbery
Image
They didn't recognize me, I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. It is because they have never seen you, he says. I would recognize you anywhere.
Muriel Barbery
Image
... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
Muriel Barbery
Image
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
Muriel Barbery
Image
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
Muriel Barbery
Image
Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.
Muriel Barbery
Image
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.
Muriel Barbery