Nicolas Barreau Quotes & Sayings

They really showed very little understanding for a man and woman who were in the process of forgetting that there was anything or anyone else in the world except the two of them — Nicolas Barreau

We'll always have Paris — Nicolas Barreau

The girl in the red coat would remain the the sweet but sore point in my biography: the promise never kept; the mystery that would always remain a mystery. And yet, I regretted nothing. Someday it would be less painful. Someday my heart would be light again. I had to only let it happen. — Nicolas Barreau

Love is still the most wonderful thing that can happen between two people? — Nicolas Barreau

When you fall in love, you start dreaming again. — Nicolas Barreau

You'll never see my favourite film on any screen in the world," I replied with a smile. "Not even here in the Cinema Paradis — Nicolas Barreau

Tender thoughts of Paris was that that kind of film. It was a bittersweet comedy that hit people where they were most vulnerable: in the hear — Nicolas Barreau

But here in the West, we just have to live with unhappy endings. — Nicolas Barreau

You're the only one I'm waiting for! — Nicolas Barreau

Thats how you look at someone you're saying goodbye to forever. Someone you have to say goodbye to. I couldn't understand what was happening here. I couldn't understand what I'd done. — Nicolas Barreau

Years don't mean anything, only what happens in them. — Nicolas Barreau

Who needs a blue sky when he's unhappy? Robert was right. The sky whether grey or blue, is cold and unemotional, and ultimately even the sun is only a fireball that, unaffected by everything going on here below on Earth, simply spews in masses of magma into space. — Nicolas Barreau

Paris became a star among the stars — Nicolas Barreau

When you get a little older, there comes a time when you realise thats whats called happiness consists only of individual lovely moments, those special times that you remember later on. — Nicolas Barreau

Where would we be in this soulless universe if there weren't a few people who hold on to memories, their hearts yearning for long-lost feelings? — Nicolas Barreau

Life is a soap bubble, says Chekhov. And mine just burst. — Nicolas Barreau

She always seemed a little lost - in her thoughts, or in the world — Nicolas Barreau

When you're unhappy, you either see nothing at all and the world sinks into meaninglessness, or else you see things preternaturally sharply, and everything suddenly seems to have meaning. Even the most banal things, like a traffic light turning from red to green, can decide whether you turn left or right. — Nicolas Barreau

Obviously, no one suspects men with flowers of evil intentions — Nicolas Barreau

But people you love always die too early, don't they, no matter what age they live to? — Nicolas Barreau

No you're not adventurous, but that doesn't matter. That's precisely what I love about you. Your vulnerability, your shyness. This world is not just for the rash and the fearless, for the loud go-getters-no, the shy and quiet, the dreamy and eccentric have their place there, too. Without them, there world would be no nuances, no light blue watercolours, no unsaid words that give the imagination space to work. And isn't it precisely the dreamers who know the truest and greatest adventures take place in the heart? — Nicolas Barreau

I mean, things happen all the simultaneously all the time - and as a rule, they have nothing to do with each other. Thats how the world works. — Nicolas Barreau

As a child, I was happy without wanting to be. I mean, I never thought about whether I wanted to be happy again, I just was. — Nicolas Barreau

Thats the thing about memories, they can make you sad, even if they are good memories. You like thinking back to them; they're the greatest treasure we have, and yetis always makes you a little sad because something has irreversibly passed. — Nicolas Barreau