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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
«I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.»
«It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
| Keywords:
be born, calamity, exploits, self-will, self-willed, sensibly, ugliness, willed
«It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.»
«Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime / I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bearable, childish, consideration, inflicts, pastime, referring, undignified
«In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
| Keywords:
furnishing, furnishings, the matter, ugliness
«There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
| Keywords:
disillusionment, Girls, pity, recover, recovering, recovers
«Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abyss, clock, consumed, display, flinging, flings, four o clock, frenzy, routine, senses, surface, The Abyss, Voluptuaries, voluptuary
«Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.»