Quotes by : Guy de Maupassant

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal,....

How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - with....

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy,....

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.

....and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the....

By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies....

The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of....

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.