|

|

Advertisements

Marguerite Duras Quotes

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate Picture Quote #1

Banality is sometimes striking Picture Quote #1

Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God Picture Quote #1

I don’t have general views about anything, except social injustice Picture Quote #1

One must talk. That’s how it is. One must Picture Quote #1

Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood Picture Quote #1

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it Picture Quote #1

For that’s what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it’s safer for them to be interested in other people’s happiness than to believe in their own Picture Quote #1

When a woman drinks it’s as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It’s a slur on the divine in our nature Picture Quote #1

I know it’s not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don’t know where. I only know it isn’t where women think Picture Quote #1

I’m still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Words don’t change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don’t have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don’t know, that you’ve never read or heard...you’ve never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe Picture Quote #1

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began Picture Quote #1

Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country Picture Quote #1

Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny Picture Quote #1

We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting Picture Quote #1

A writer is a foreign country Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Get rid of things or you’ll spend your whole life tidying up Picture Quote #1

You are what you are and that fascinates me Picture Quote #1

I know all one can know when one knows nothing Picture Quote #1

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met Picture Quote #1

When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life Picture Quote #1

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

The best way to fill time is to waste it Picture Quote #1

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire Picture Quote #1

Very early in my life it was too late Picture Quote #1

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death Picture Quote #1

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable Picture Quote #1

I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can’t read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up Picture Quote #1

1 2 3

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Banality is sometimes striking (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. (Marguerite Duras Quotes) I don’t have general views about anything, except social injustice (Marguerite Duras Quotes) One must talk. That’s how it is. One must (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it (Marguerite Duras Quotes) For that’s what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it’s safer for them to be interested in other people’s happiness than to believe in their own (Marguerite Duras Quotes) When a woman drinks it’s as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It’s a slur on the divine in our nature. (Marguerite Duras Quotes) I know it’s not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don’t know where. I only know it isn’t where women think. (Marguerite Duras Quotes) I’m still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door. (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Words don’t change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don’t have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don’t know, that you’ve never read or heard...you’ve never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe... (Marguerite Duras Quotes) A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began. (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country. (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. (Marguerite Duras Quotes) We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting. (Marguerite Duras Quotes) A writer is a foreign country (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Get rid of things or you’ll spend your whole life tidying up (Marguerite Duras Quotes) You are what you are and that fascinates me (Marguerite Duras Quotes) I know all one can know when one knows nothing (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met (Marguerite Duras Quotes) When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life (Marguerite Duras Quotes) It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most (Marguerite Duras Quotes) The best way to fill time is to waste it (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Very early in my life it was too late (Marguerite Duras Quotes) War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death (Marguerite Duras Quotes) You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable (Marguerite Duras Quotes) I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can’t read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up (Marguerite Duras Quotes)

1 2 3