Jules Renard Quotes - Page 2

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

God does not believe in our God.

If money does not make you happy, give it back

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Style is to forget all styles.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

Art: to nudge truth along a little.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.