Jean Anouilh Quotes about Life

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh

Life, Being Yourself, Acceptance

"Plays: Thieves' carnival. Medea. Cécile, or The school for fathers. Traveler without luggage. The orchestra. Episode in the life of an author. Catch as catch can".

What you get free costs too much.

Jean Anouilh

Life, Success, Cost

Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

Jean Anouilh

Life, Simple, Thinking

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

Jean Anouilh

Life

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh

Life, Mean, Hands

Jean Anouilh “Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”