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
things-in-life good-things good-things-in-life
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
memories spring heart
There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.
dream art strange
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
tomorrow moments hours
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.
sleep kissing long
We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.
law doe youth
Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.
art bored touching
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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.
men panic east
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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.