Francoise Sagan Love Quotes & Sayings

If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us. — Francoise Sagan

I think it is important to stay open to the world around you, so that you are constantly in a state of growth and evolution, which can only happen through inspiration. — Cara Santana

She was addicted to literature like some people were addicted to heroin. — Allie Burke

Love is worth whatever it costs. — Francoise Sagan

She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes. — Francoise Sagan

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. — Francoise Sagan

As for Lucile, her first awareness of the world each morning was the sensation of being made love to, and she would find herself drifting into consciousness with a mixture of surprise, pleasure, and a vague anger at this half-rape, which deprived her of all of her traditional rituals of waking up - opening her eyes, closing them again, rejecting the new day or else welcoming it - all the confused and deliciously private little conflicts in her — Francoise Sagan

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases. — Francoise Sagan

I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both. — Francoise Sagan

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? — Francoise Sagan

There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment. — Francoise Sagan

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love. — Francoise Sagan

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit. — Francoise Sagan

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure. — Francoise Sagan

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art. — Jerry Saltz

I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser. — Garry Kasparov

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present. — Francoise Sagan

Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other ... It's something different ... a sense of loss ... — Francoise Sagan

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too. — Francoise Sagan

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull. — Francoise Sagan

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love. — Francoise Sagan

Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students. — Imogen Binnie

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking ... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it. — Jonathan M. Wainwright

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. — Francoise Sagan

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying. — Francoise Sagan

Some things take root
in the brain and just don't
let go. — Tim Seibles

What he does not yet understand is that whatever makes a woman strong is the reason that certain men will love her, even if behind her strengths there hide great weaknesses. This he will learn from You. He will learn that You are bubbly, funny, and sweet only because You have all Your weaknesses. But by then it will be too late. — Francoise Sagan

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful. — Francoise Sagan

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me. — Francoise Sagan

The right people to start video blogging are those with a passion to tell a story. — Steve Garfield

Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners. — Martin Luther

We like investments where the risk is time, not price. — Richard Chandler

But here I hold your dream in my poem. — Rae Armantrout

I don't want to be considered a gymnast anymore. — Mitch Gaylord

One partner is always more in love than the other. — Francoise Sagan

I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes. — Karl Pearson

For what Luc was in fact proposing was just a game, an enticing game, but, even so, one that could destroy my undoubtedly quite genuine feelings for Bertrand; and it could destroy something else within me, something ill-defined but fiercely felt, which, whether I liked it or not, was opposed to transience. Or, at the very least, to the intentionally transient nature of what Luc what was offering. And then, even if I was able to conceive of any passion or liaison as being short-lived, I couldn't accept in advance that it had to be that way. Like any individual for whom life is a series of charades, I could bear the charades only if they were written by me, and by me alone. — Francoise Sagan

What we love we may also despise. — Francoise Sagan

No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled. — Francoise Sagan

The happiness is real, and the love is not. — Francoise Sagan

He had always known that he was the lover and she was the object of love. — Francoise Sagan

Can a mordern city burn,' he asked Tom. 'One made mostly of concrete and metal and glass? Could it burn the way Chicago did after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern? — Stephen King