Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

The power he exercises is no more dictatorial than, for example, Roosevelt's was.

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself... It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do — or don't do.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

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

We were two of a kind, and our relationship would endure as long as we did: but it could not make up entirely for the fleeting riches to be had from encounters with different people.