Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassantmopasɑ̃]; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 August 1850
CountryFrance
Guy de Maupassant quotes about
history old-lady unreliable
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
kissing stolen
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
government people politics
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
doubt doubtful
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
two people feelings
She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.
people unhappy unhappy-marriage
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
fall heart sleep
I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.
soldier flavor knows
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
long life-is ends
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
thinking people long
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
dream boys men
A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!
abstinence form worst
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
things-in-life dresses good-things
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
passion respectable seems
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food