146 Quotes by Françoise Sagan

I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.

We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.

He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

God help us!' Josée thought. 'Here we have one of those regular biblical women! She thinks that a baby will win back her man.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

La gente que escribe libros rara vez son intelectuales.Los intelectuales son gente que hablan sobre los libros que han escrito otros.