Top 40 Quotes About Vivre
#1. I use the word drifted advisedly. I have read novels in which young people are described as bursting with energy - joie de vivre, the magnificent vitality of youth ... Personally, all the young people I come across have the air of animal wraiths.
Agatha Christie
#2. If only there was enough space on this tiny card to evoke my unfettered joie de vivre for what you have done. The gaiety, the mirth, the heavenly bubbling of every effusive cell that sings inside me for your kind and pithy offering.
Joshua Braff
#3. Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.
John Mackey
#4. Pour vivre heureux, vivons cache. To live happily, live hidden.
Bill Dedman
#5. Cripes, just listen to that desperation mixed with a wild joie de vivre. That doesn't come out of nothing. They'll be able to hear that a massive eruption once rocked the world and scattered pain and passion in it's wake.
Cat Winters
#6. 'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
LeRoy Neiman
#7. Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.
Joan Littlewood
#8. It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.
Robert A. Metzger
#9. People who dress up in bizarre costumes have a savoir-vivre - not to mention the sort of personality disorder - that he admires.
Thomas Pynchon
#10. I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.
Geena Davis
#11. Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
Sylvia Plath
#12. And so it is that a new joie de vivre creeps into Ada's soul like a moth into a trunk of woollens.
Dasa Drndic
#13. I'd always been leery of Eric, but I'd appreciated his mischief, his single-mindedness, and his flair. If you could a vampire had jois de vivre, Eric had it in spades.
-Sookie
Charlaine Harris
#14. When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.
Chip Conley
#15. Our powder and arrows are going to run out on us some time. And so are our food and water and joie de vivre and good books and everything. Why not walk out now and get made into somebody's favourite slave?
Dorothy Dunnett
#16. Vous avez, une vie bien vivre ... You have one life, live it well!
Timothy Pina
#17. Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.
Zoroaster
#18. I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#19. Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
#20. Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.
Ruth Ozeki
#21. Joie de vivre. Joy and life together. It's such an ironically perfect description of you.
Rosamund Lupton
#22. Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.
Paul Di Filippo
#23. Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.
Perry Groves
#24. But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
Joni Mitchell
#25. I have a tremendous joie de vivre ... alternating with irritability of course.
Joni Mitchell
#26. Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.
RuPaul
#27. Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
Aldous Huxley
#28. Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.
[Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#29. Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of joie de vivre, or alternatively a leavening element of self-proclaiming stupidity in one's make-up.
Ronald Frame
#30. In Marrakech, Arabian open-heartedness is served up with a generous dose of pan-African mysticism, a dollop of French savoir-vivre, and a garnish of Moorish grace. The vibe is irresistible to meaning-of-life seekers and international hipsters looking for a scene.
Vivian Swift
#31. Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)
Jean-Luc Godard
#32. Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
Charles Baudelaire
#33. I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!
Tyne O'Connell
#34. Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#35. In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
Mireille Guiliano
#36. If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.
Raymond Blanc
#37. She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?
Emile Zola
#38. Having a 'taste for life' is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.
Fennel Hudson
#39. Daisy loved all parades, especially this one, whose crush of observers, prone to impulsive kisses, made it one more piece of the mistletoe under which she lived her life
Thomas Mallon
