Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about future, change, life
Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
34 quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir - french writer and essayist
Was born on 09 jan 1908.
Died on 14 apr 1986, at 78 years old.
Died on 14 apr 1986, at 78 years old.
Origin country: France
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about magic, pleasure, word, woman, sex
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about guilt, reward, duty, common sense, sense, truth
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about truth, love
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about wish, human imperfections, life
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about defeat, victory
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about fear, ideal, woman, human imperfections, being, man
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about stubbornly, obstacles, impossible, face
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about olderness, death, age, old, life, destiny, absolute, time
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about children, being
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about life
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. Simone
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about human imperfections, being, woman, man
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about man
