228 Quotes by Romain Gary

When a war is won, it’s the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

The trouble with hysteria is that it’s contagious.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.

Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it’s just a sincere communication and the same values.

He gave up. He’d been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it’s maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don’t seem to have any more principles left, so it’s got to be maturity... A broken man, I guess that’s what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.

A writer’s subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

To ‘live’, to be truly alive, it is not enough simply to breathe, to suffer, nor even to be happy; life is a secret that cannot be discovered on one’s own. True living is done in pairs.

You are the only man I ever respected,′ she said. ‘But you haven’t aged well. You have stayed young. Men who stay young don’t age well.