Anouk Aimee Quotations

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.