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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Tagged: Sisyphus, Housework, Monotony, Drudgery
“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Tagged: Misogyny, Virility
“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed(Pantheon Modern Writers)
Tagged: Diary, Lying by Omission
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, La Vielliesse
Tagged: Infinity, Adventure, Context, Life, Immortality
“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins(Norton Paperback Fiction)
Tagged: Love, eternal love, forever person
“I like missing you so hard because it makes me feel strongly that you are not a dream, you are real, you are living, and I'll meet you again.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
Tagged: Love, romance, Missing A Lover, Love Letter
“I am too tired and I miss you too much.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
Tagged: Tired, I Miss You
“But I miss you to the point of anguish.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre
Tagged: Missing A Lover, anguish
“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
Tagged: Existence, Misunderstanding
“I think lots of nice things about you during the day, but I’m too tired to tell you them.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre
Tagged: Thoughts, Love, sweet, Unsaid Feelings
“No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student
Tagged: Self-Love
“Don’t try to be cured; you will heal as much as you need to by yourself.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins(Norton Paperback Fiction)
Tagged: Healing, Waiting, Patience, cure, Recovery
“I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre
Tagged: Romantic Lines, Passionate, Philosophers, Love Of Literature
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, 50 Badass Quotes From 50 Badass Women
Tagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Second Sex
Tagged: Identity, Self love
“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Tagged: Comfort, Technology of Wishing, Truth, Love, Pursuit of Happiness, Philosophy
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Becoming A Woman
Tagged: Becoming A Woman, Being a woman, feminism
“Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, The Art of Awareness, How To Think
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