Guy de Maupassant People Quotations

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms