Drieu La Quotes & Sayings

Your talent can take you where your character can't keep you. — Matt Tommey

He adored force and hated weakness. It is the crime of female natures. — Francois Mauriac

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing. — Shirley Hazzard

I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger. — Jeremy Clarkson

An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side. — Isabella Bird

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish. — Tom Perrotta

You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything. — Richard Hugo

Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for. — Franz Kafka

Politics is merely war by other means.
-an old Andorian saying — David Mack

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence
("Roundness") — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

And above all, I am not interested enough in politics to let them encumber my last days. - DRIEU LA ROCHELLE, — Clive James

We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly. — Guy Branum

Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now. — Timothy Ferriss

Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one's neighbor, in the existence of one's neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves. — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection
You could limit your human existence to filling your shape with a muscle
("Tennis") — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle