Guy de Maupassant Life Quotations

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.