113 Quotes by Jean Anouilh

ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you―do you have the feeling that―that a great empty space is being hollowed out inside you, that there is something inside you that is just―dying?HAEMON: Yes, I do, I do.

L'humain vous gêne aux entournures dans la famille. Il vous faut un tête-à-tête avec le destin et la mort. Et tuer votre père et coucher avec votre mère et apprendre tout cela après, avidement, mot par mot. Quel breuvage, hein, les mots qui vous condamnent ? Et comme on les boit goulûment quand on s'appelle Œdipe, ou Antigone.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.