Quotes by : Marguerite Yourcenar

I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of....

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.....

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who....

A part of every life, even a life meriting very little regard, is spent in searching out the reasons....

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind,....

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only....

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some....

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

We lose track of everything, and of everyone, even ourselves. The facts of my father's life are less....