Quotes by : Colette

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite;....

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward....

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know....

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter....

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...

We only do well the things we like doing.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer....

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then....