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
encounters life-worth-living worth-living
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
life white soul
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
bed born whole-life
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
things-in-life good-things good-things-in-life
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
life lucky care
I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.
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.
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.
fear past
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
peace war government
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
memories giving perfect
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
night silence ears
I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness...
love mean air
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.
army intelligent government
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
sick body flesh
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.