146 Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.