113 Quotes by Jean Anouilh

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.