Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
Simone de Beauvoir
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Political Philosopher
Paris
France
Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
Castor
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
Couple
Living
Together
Reason
Without
Turning
Began
Merely
More quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.
Simone de Beauvoir
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
Simone de Beauvoir
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Simone de Beauvoir
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
Simone de Beauvoir
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
Simone de Beauvoir
there is a poetry in making preserves the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
Simone de Beauvoir
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.
Simone de Beauvoir
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.
Simone de Beauvoir
I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
Simone de Beauvoir
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
Simone de Beauvoir
I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.
Simone de Beauvoir
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
Simone de Beauvoir
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir
Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Simone de Beauvoir
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
Simone de Beauvoir
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
Simone de Beauvoir
My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
Simone de Beauvoir
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
Simone de Beauvoir
She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.
Simone de Beauvoir
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
Simone de Beauvoir
