Quotes from Romain Gary

Bruno, someday you will die of kindness, tolerance and gentleness. Well, given the options, it isn't a bad way to go.

All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth.

For a few minutes I tried to empty my mind entirely, to concentrate solely on breathing: sometimes it's useful to rediscover simpler pleasures of life.

Noaptea, mi-a fost frig, m-am sculat ÅŸi m-amdus s?-i mai pun înc? o p?tur?.

The trouble with hysteria is that it's contagious.

Islam calls that 'the roots of heaven' and to the Mexican Indians it is the 'tree of life'--the thing that makes both of them fall on their knees and raise their eyes and beat their tormented breasts. [...] Our needs--for justice, for freedom and dignity--are roots of heaven that are deeply embedded in our hearts, but of heaven itself men know nothing but the gripping roots...

L'amour, tu sais, ce dont il a le plus besoin, c'est l'imagination. Il faut que chacun invente l'autre avec toute son imagination, avec toutes ses forces et qu'il ne cède pas un pouce du terrain à la réalité ; alors, là, lorsque deux imaginations se rencontrent… Il n'y a rien de plus beau.

Tik priart?jus ketvirt? dešimt?, po ilg? klajoni? tarp šedevr? man atsiv?r? tiesa ir supratau, kad paskutinio kamuoliuko išvis n?ra.

Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it's just a sincere communication and the same values.

cette façon que vous avez de vouloir renoncer plutôt que de perdre.

ces bouquets de fleurs qui partent à la recherche d'un cÅ"ur et ne trouvent qu'un vase.

Khi ??ng Ä'i?u là thá»±c ch?t và tr?n v?n, không màu mè, thì ch? có im l?ng là bi?u lá»™ ???c nó ra.

The best way to defend yourself against the power of money is to have some.

Ma io non ci tengo tanto a essere felice, preferisco ancora la vita. La felicità è una bella schifezza e una carogna e bisognerebbe insegnarle a vivere. Non siamo della stessa razza, io e lei, e a me non me ne frega niente.

Çok eÄŸlendim, teÅŸekkür ederim. HoÅŸçakal?n.

No doubt about it: numbers are the future. The world's been learning to count since the days of chivalry ended and it's only going to get worse. We're about to witness the end of everything that isn't quantifiable—honor, for example.

They died... Have you ever seen a baby elephant lying on its side, with its trunk inert, gazing at you with eyes in which there seem to have taken refuge all those so highly praised human qualities of which humanity is so largely devoid?

Tuomet mes iš tikr?j? buvome pasiek? dugn? - nesakau "prarajos", nes nuo tada patyriau, kad praraja dugno neturi ir kad mes visi galim mušti gylio rekordus, niekada neišsemdami tos ?domios institucijos galimybi?.

O aš, degdamas nekantrumu, nub?gau atnaujinti savo draugyst?s su j?ra. Ji atpažino mane iškart ir atb?go lyžtelti koj? piršt?.

Small attentions make great friends.

Monsieur Hamil, est-ce qu'on peut vivre sans amour? - Oui, dit-il, et il baissa la tête comme s'il avait honte.

Never say die. You have to be mad, it's true, to keep going and hope, but the first reptile who dragged his belly out of the water a million years ago to live on land without lungs and tried to breathe all the same — he too was mad. In the end the reptile became a man. We must always try to do the best we can — perhaps one day well become human, who knows.

distance and imagination which is almost always indispensable to the birth of legends.

quand je serai grand j'écrirai moi aussi les misérables parce que c'est ce qu'on écrit toujours quand on a quelque chose à dire.