Quotes About Author

In your darkest hour, never worry that there is no hope for the future. The most extraordinary thing about this life is that YOU are the author of your own destiny, and you get to decide what's in the next chapter.

We should know the difference between cherishing the lessons of the past and living in the past; likewise the difference between being prepared for the future and being worried about the future.

I hate hearing about pretty women being upset...bad days is for ugly hoes you ask me.

Fate is what transfers you from what you are to what you wanna be.

The consolation I drew from her words may even have had, much later, far-reaching and grave consequences for me,

But because I knew this to be impossible in a letter addressed to me, the sight of it unaccompanied by any belief in it gave me no pleasure.

The thought of being made comfortable gives him strength to endure his pain.

I needed to live with the idea of the death of Albertine, with the idea of her misdeeds, for these ideas to become habitual, that is for me to be able to forget these ideas and finally forget Albertine herself.

The sort of thing people call little masterpieces, trifles that are perfect gems, in fact what I loathe most in the world. The

But already there is the same fault, that paradox of stringing together fine-sounding words and only afterwards troubling about what they mean.

Love is nothing more perhaps than the stimulation of those eddies which, in the wake of an emotion, stir the soul

Cottard will bore you, and that alone will prevent his treatment from having any effect.

After all," I said to myself, "possibly the pleasure that its author has found in writing it is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; it may be only an accessory, one that is often to be found superadded to that value, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written yawning.

the mean and narrow outlook of the pedant, whom those who are most contemptuous of him in the impartiality of their own minds are only too prone to copy when they are obliged to play a part upon the vulgar stage of life.

Nous sentons très bien que notre sagesse commence où celle de l'auteur finit, et nous voudrions qu'il nous donnât des réponses, quand tout ce qu'il peut faire est de nous donner des désirs.

as the saying is, climbing in opposition to my

anguish the actual cessation of which was so agreeable that it might even be called a state of happiness.

And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a punishable offence but as an involuntary ailment which had been officially recognised, a nervous condition for which I was in no way responsible.

Probably what is wanting, the first time, is not comprehension but memory.

when he is not misunderstood by those around him, that the feeling on their part which proves that the superiority of his intelligence has compelled their recognition is not their admiration for his ideas, since these are beyond them, but their respect for his goodness.

Ponchour, Matame la marquise » avec le même accent qu'un concierge alsacien.

not for a triumph of dramatic artistry but for a manifestation of life;

the fascination of my book, a magic as potent as the deepest slumber,

The satisfaction a brainless fool gets out of being in the right and out of the certainty of success, is particularly irritating.