Henri Charriere Quotes

#1. What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, esposas; man, hombre; woman, mujer.

Henri Charriere

#2. You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave?

Henri Charriere

#3. Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

Nancy Pearcey

#4. Where there is life, there is hope.

Henri Charriere

#5. When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything.

Henri Charriere

#6. Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad, interested or indifferent.

Henri Charriere

#7. To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Amy Heckerling

#8. I've known this a long time, because when Napoleon III created the bagnes and was asked: "But who will guard these bandits?" he answered: "Worse bandits.

Henri Charriere

#9. Sometimes God wills for one of his children to experience human wickedness so that he will emerge stronger and nobler than ever.

Henri Charriere

#10. the butterflies that had just hatched hurried into the light to find love as

Henri Charriere

#11. Forgive those who have made you suffer.

Henri Charriere

#12. But I'm gon' get mine more than I get got.

Marshawn Lynch

#13. Life is based on comparisons

Henri Charriere

#14. Eyes changed after they looked at new things.

Betty Smith

#15. It was worth having made this break for the people, the human beings it had brought me into contact with. Although it had failed, my escape had been a victory, merely by having enriched my heart with the friendship of these wonderful people. No, I was not sorry. I had done it.

Henri Charriere

#16. When God says hold up, wait, pray, it's not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own

Heather Choate Davis

#17. True to the GAME (Giving, Affirming, Manifesting, Evolving).

T.F. Hodge

#18. Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Jean Cocteau

#19. Sleep in peace, you members of the jury who condemned me to this place; sleep in peace,

Henri Charriere

#20. I must prove that I can be, that I am and will be, a normal person. Perhaps no better, but certainly no worse than the rest.

Henri Charriere