Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilhwas a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 June 1910
CountryFrance
Saintliness is also a temptation.
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
Every man thinks god is on his side.
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past . . . And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.