Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
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
Imagination
Political
Figment
Doe
Figments
Revolt
Muscles
Anger
Remains
Revolution
More quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
Simone de Beauvoir
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
Simone de Beauvoir
It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age' the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.
Simone de Beauvoir
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
Simone de Beauvoir
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
Simone de Beauvoir
But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
Simone de Beauvoir
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir
Buying is profound pleasure.
Simone de Beauvoir
The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.
Simone de Beauvoir
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
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
Simone de Beauvoir
What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.
Simone de Beauvoir
Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
Simone de Beauvoir
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
Simone de Beauvoir
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
Simone de Beauvoir
It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.
Simone de Beauvoir
I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, this domain is purely for women. I don't believe that at all.
Simone de Beauvoir
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it a discussion
Simone de Beauvoir
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
Simone de Beauvoir
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
Simone de Beauvoir
