Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy, CC FRSCwas a French Canadian author...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth22 March 1909
CountryCanada
Gabrielle Roy quotes about
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
children new-beginnings fragility
I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.
tragedy life-is feels
Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.
pain moving long
poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.
mind engagement judgment
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
triumph endure difficult
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
wind house curiosity
Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.
dream ideas forever
Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.
money time funny-life
it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
writing tragic
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
destiny earth knows
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
canada would-be realizing
My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.