Philosophy Quote by Françoise Sagan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”

“Then I realized that I had attacked a living, sensitive creature, not just an entity.”

“For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.”

“Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is health of every man.”

“But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity.”

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”

“Of course, I couldn’t explain this vector calculus concept and so, slightly embarrassed in front of Rahul and the other Bengali students, I told Sanjit just that; he had cornered me, and honesty emerged as my only option. Simultaneous to my humiliating disclosure of the truth, Sanjit gradually inched toward where I was sitting. After hearing my reply, he slowly returned to his teacher stool and whiteboard, his back turned away from the class, the suspense building and his words impending, before turning around and breaking into speech, “Don’t trust your interior monologue. If you are asked something and you know it, then express or demonstrate it. Don’t just nod or say yes because then you are lying to yourself. Any ass can say yes, but not all asses can express it.” I modified my first impression: Sanjit was full of explicit aphorisms. Humbled, those words encouragingly rang between my ears for quite some time.”

“On the Bigotry of Culture:”