Love By Simone De Beauvoir Quotes

#1. To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Simone De Beauvoir

#3. No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters - from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia - I don't know, I always think about what will be lost -

Gillian Flynn

#4. Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

Simone De Beauvoir

#6. The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. None of us are normal.

Erica Chilson

#8. Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Simone De Beauvoir

#11. If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. Between women love is contemplation; caresses are meant less to appropriate the other than to recreate oneself slowly through her; separation is eliminated, there is neither fight nor victory nor defeat; each one is both subject and object

Simone De Beauvoir

#13. The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Simone De Beauvoir

#14. There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'
There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

Simone De Beauvoir

#15. When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

Simone De Beauvoir

#16. On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself
on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

Simone De Beauvoir

#17. But what does the word insist mean after a whole life of love and understanding? I have never asked anything for myself that I did not also wish for him.

Simone De Beauvoir

#18. She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Simone De Beauvoir

#19. Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed pains and pleasures whose violence alone saved me from the deserts of boredom in which I found myself bogged down.

Simone De Beauvoir

#20. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Simone De Beauvoir

#21. Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise. (p. 248)

Simone De Beauvoir

#22. The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

Ian McEwan

#23. Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.

Simone De Beauvoir

#24. Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

Simone De Beauvoir

#25. I tried to love you less.I couldn't.

Simone De Beauvoir

#26. Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

Simone De Beauvoir

#27. Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Simone De Beauvoir

#28. There is no evidence that Jesus himself openly advocated violent actions. But he was certainly no pacifist. "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword" (Matthew 10:34 | Luke 12:51).

Reza Aslan

#29. You don't enjoy cooking if you think of it as a duty.

Kyung-ran Jo

#30. I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

Simone De Beauvoir

#31. You need more sleep."
"Skillet, pan."
"What?"
"You know, the skillet says the pan's the same deal."
He thought a moment. "I believe that's the pot calling the kettle black."
"Whatever, kitchen stuff can't talk anyway.

J.D. Robb

#32. As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light - it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.

Simone De Beauvoir