Simone de Beauvoir quote: "The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour."

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs yo...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness ra...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, wher...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Buying is a profound pleasure.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements o...
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friend...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to es...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

All oppression creates a state of war.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it st...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, bu...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppresse...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive o...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth reward...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

It's only arrogance if you're wrong
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it impl...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passiv...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanatio...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superi...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daug...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of thei...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, fr...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Peut-être vas-tu me trouver ridicule, mais je me mépriserais de n'oser l'être jamais.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Kadını götürüp mutfağa ya da
süslenme odasına kapatıyor, sonra da ufkunun darlığına...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Si, bien avant la puberté, et parfois même dès sa toute petite enfance, elle nous apparaît déj�...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the cle...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs yo...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rew...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that cu...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to conv...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness ra...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not t...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be etern...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the ris...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friend...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the sc...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious mi...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I was still keenly aware as in my childhood of the inexplicable nature of my presence here on earth;...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friend...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious mi...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual pover...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You nee...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the co...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradic...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a litt...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that disti...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Art is an attempt to integrate evil
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to es...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Exister c’est oser se jeter dans le monde.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

But I miss you to the point of anguish.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should b...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open f...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revoluti...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation ha...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculin...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Hay que añadir que los hombres más respetuosos con al vida embrionaria son también lo que más pr...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure impr...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly onesel...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Nature asserts itself in the face of Spirit which it denies while assuming it; the individual is aga...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I closed my eyes, but that didn't blur the images his words had evoked. "Oh, God," I murmured.
...
JEANNETTE DE BEAUVOIR

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...
SIMONE WEIL

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
SIMONE WEIL

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
SIMONE WEIL

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact ...
SIMONE WEIL

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends ar...
SIMONE WEIL

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEIL

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
SIMONE WEIL

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
SIMONE WEIL

I can, therefore I am.
SIMONE WEIL

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
NINA SIMONE

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the re...
NINA SIMONE

Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument...
NINA SIMONE

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed wh...
SIMONE WEIL

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of...
SIMONE WEIL

Most athletes get intimidated once they see how many fans are out there, but it almost calms me down...
SIMONE BILES

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
HANNAH SIMONE

I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
HANNAH SIMONE

It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more p...
HANNAH SIMONE

My lashes are so long that if I don't curl them, I'm blind.
HANNAH SIMONE

Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and...
HANNAH SIMONE

Fusion fashion - that's what I'm inspired by, taking all these different cultures and then t...
HANNAH SIMONE

Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
HANNAH SIMONE

Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge li...
HANNAH SIMONE

I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be cel...
HANNAH SIMONE

The thing I learned about being in this industry is the core of hosting and the core of acting is au...
HANNAH SIMONE

You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
HANNAH SIMONE

I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized ...
HANNAH SIMONE

It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional worki...
HANNAH SIMONE

When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get...
HANNAH SIMONE

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pl...
SIMONE WEIL

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to kno...
SIMONE WEIL

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
SIMONE WEIL

Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs...
SIMONE WEIL

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And o...
SIMONE WEIL

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of ind...
SIMONE WEIL

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
SIMONE WEIL

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the se...
SIMONE WEIL

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing i...
SIMONE WEIL

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great advers...
SIMONE WEIL

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its opti...
SIMONE WEIL

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to li...
SIMONE WEIL

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. ...
SIMONE WEIL

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
SIMONE WEIL

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below begg...
SIMONE WEIL

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
SIMONE WEIL

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
SIMONE WEIL

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people tog...
SIMONE SIGNORET

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both....
SIMONE WEIL

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an ima...
SIMONE WEIL

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been a...
SIMONE WEIL

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train ma...
SIMONE WEIL

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
SIMONE WEIL

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
SIMONE WEIL

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're ...
SIMONE ELKELES

Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I gi...
SIMONE ELKELES

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am sufferi...
SIMONE WEIL

The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..."
"You've never seen a guy wit...
SIMONE ELKELES

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.
SIMONE ELKELES

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door...
SIMONE WEIL

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being d...
SIMONE WEIL

As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to t...
SIMONE WEIL

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
SIMONE ELKELES

I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're where I want to be.
SIMONE ELKELES

dear kiara,
The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose ...
SIMONE ELKELES

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case...
SIMONE WEIL

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to...
SIMONE WEIL

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
SIMONE WEIL

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
SIMONE WEIL

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the...
SIMONE WEIL

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i...
SIMONE WEIL

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
SIMONE WEIL

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
SIMONE WEIL

The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL

It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
SIMONE WEIL

The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.

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Simone de Beauvoir

The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.

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