10 Quotes by Henri Charrière

Where there is life, there is hope.

Everybody knows I was a millionaire. And from there to killing me because they think I'm carrying fifty or a hundred thousand francs around isn't a very long step.

You don't have to be a graduate of Saint-Cyr to know that all wrecks end up on shore.

He agreed that I should buy another dictionary or, better yet, a phrase book with standard Spanish expressions. He also suggested that it would be a good idea if I learned to stammer, because people would get bored listening to me and would finish the sentence for me; this way my accent wouldn't be noticed.

Everybody was stark naked, day and night. Luckily it was hot. They let me wear socks.

When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything.

Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad, interested or indifferent.

Forgive those who have made you suffer.

Sometimes God wills for one of his children to experience human wickedness so that he will emerge stronger and nobler than ever.