Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. Be the first to learn about new releases!
Start by following Emmanuel Bove.

Emmanuel Bove Emmanuel Bove > Quotes

 

 (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)
Showing 1-23 of 23
“a man like me, who does not work, who does not want to work, will always be disliked.
In that house full of working people , I was the madman that, deep down, everyone wanted to be. I was the one who went without food, the cinema, warm clothes, to be free. I was the one who, without meaning to, daily reminded people of their wretched state.
people have not forgiven me for being free and for not being afraid of poverty.”
Emmanuel Bove
“Solitude, what a sad and beautiful thing it is! How beautiful when we choose it! How sad when it is forced upon us year after year! Some strong men are not lonely when they are alone, but I, who am weak, am lonely when I have no friends.”
Emmanuel Bove
“People feel sorry for you if you sit down on a bench in the evening.”
Emmanuel Bove
“If I do start life all over again, I’ll do so very cautiously, but will I even start? Caution, understanding, it’s all useless. There is weariness, and nothing more.”
Emmanuel Bove
“I asked myself whether a life devoid of any affection, of any goal, a life one fills with a thousand trifles intended to relieve its monotony, populated with human beings one seeks out in order not to be alone and whom one flees to avoid being bored by them, whether such a life isn't ridiculous, whether anything whatsoever wouldn't be preferable.”
Emmanuel Bove, A Winter's Journal
“Raindrops were falling on the ground, never one on top of another.”
Emmanuel Bove, My Friends
“Lovers are rude and selfish.”
Emmanuel Bove
“It is strange how everything changes when you are not there.”
Emmanuel Bove, My Friends
tags: change
“¡Ah! ¡La soledad, qué hermosa y triste cosa! ¡Qué hermosa cuando la escogemos! ¡Qué triste cuando nos es impuesta durante años!”
Emmanuel Bove, EMMANUEL BOVE : MES AMIS + L'AMOUR DE PIERRE NEUHART + LE MEURTRE DE SUZY POMMIER + LE PRESSENTIMENT (Ed. intégrale annotée)
“Solitude, what a sad and beautiful thing it is! How beautiful when we choose it! How sad when it is forced upon us year after year!”
The ultimate loneliness inevitably becomes evil.”
Emmanuel Bove, My Friends
“I am the abandoned child, now become a man. So everything has turned out pretty well. . . A little too much importance is accorded to things I say.”
Emmanuel Bove, A Singular Man
“Hij vond de wereld slecht. Niemand was in staat tot onbaatzuchtigheid. Om zich heen zag hij alleen mensen die deden of ze het eeuwige leven hadden, ze waren onrechtvaardig en schraapzuchtig, slijmden tegen degenen aan wie ze iets konden hebben en lieten de rest links liggen. Hij vroeg zich af of het leven op die manier echt de moeite waard was om geleefd te worden, of het geluk niet eerder besloten lag in de eenzaamheid dan in de ellendige inspanningen die hij zich moest getroosten om de schijn op te houden tegenover zijn omgeving.”
Emmanuel Bove, Het voorgevoel
“Kui kodust välja lähen, loodan alati, et juhtub midagi, mis mu elu täielikult muudab. Ootan seda kuni kojujõudmiseni. Sellepärast ma toas püsida ei tahagi.
Kahjuks ei ole seni midagi niisugust juhtunud.”
Emmanuel Bove
“Kui ma kodust välja lähen, loodan alati, et juhtub midagi, mis mu elu täielikult muudab. Ootan seda kuni kojujõudmiseni. Sellepärast ma oma toas püsida ei tahagi.
Kahjuks ei ole seni midagi niisugust juhtunud.”
Emmanuel Bove, My Friends
“I have not asked anything extraordinary from life. I have only asked for one thing, which has always been refused to me. I have really fought to obtain it. This thing, other people find it without searching. This thing is neither money, nor friendship, nor glory. It's a place amongst men, a place for me, a place that will be recognized as mine without envy, as there will be nothing enviable about it. This place would not be different from the people who occupy it. It would just be respectable.”
Emmanuel Bove, A Singular Man
“I’m sure he knew all the petty thoughts going through my mind at the time. Yes, without a doubt, he knew them all because, had I been in his shoes, I too would have guessed them.”
Emmanuel Bove, Henri Duchemin and His Shadows
“O ces fêtes, dans les parcs! Que les lampions utilisés pour les illuminations me semblaient misérables, accrochés à des fils de fer tendus entre les arbres! Je ne me rendais pas compte que, comme au guignol le bâton suffit à faire le gendarme, ils suffisaient à donner l'illusion de fêtes nocturnes.”
Emmanuel Bove
“Niets is bedrieglijker dan goede bedoelingen, want die wekken de illusie dat ze het goede zelf zijn.”
Emmanuel Bove, Het voorgevoel
“Peut-être les Dechatellux avaient-ils, comme moi, le sentiment que la vie n'est pas éternelle, que chaque mois qui s'écoule diminue les menaces qu'elle fait peser sur nous. Quand nous n'aurons plus que quelques années à vivre, elles ne pourront tout de même pas s'abattre toutes sur nous.”
Emmanuel Bove
“Charles Benesteau ging weg. Hij begreep nu precies waarom hij de mensen die hij had gekend zo zorgvuldig ontliep: er gaapte een enorme afstand tussen hem en de anderen. Wat hij gedaan had was voor hen bijzonder, terwijl het voor hem zo eenvoudig was.”
Emmanuel Bove, Het voorgevoel
“Est-ce donc si difficile de se comprendre sur la terre ?
...
Je me demande parfois si je ne suis pas fou. J’avais tout pour être heureux et il fallait que des réflexions idiotes vinssent me troubler.”
Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis
“Il existe des gens persuadés que c'est le départ qui compte le plus dans la vie. Si le départ est mauvais, il peut nous arriver les pires malheurs, ils ne s'en attristent pas. C'était inévitable. Mais s'il est bon et qu'il nous arrive quand même les pires malheurs, ils en sont sincèrement peinés.”
Emmanuel Bove
“There are moments which no word, no regret, no despairing act can touch, when one remains as powerless before a human being as before an object.”
Emmanuel Bove, Armand

All Quotes | Add A Quote
My Friends My Friends
1,922 ratings
Open Preview
Armand Armand
208 ratings
La Dernière Nuit La Dernière Nuit
43 ratings
Open Preview