Jules Renard Quotes (26 quotations)
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1. A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea. - Jules Renard
2. A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. - Jules Renard
3. An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. - Jules Renard
4. As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more. - Jules Renard
5. Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. - Jules Renard
6. Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. - Jules Renard
7. Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. - Jules Renard
8. I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. - Jules Renard
9. I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not. - Jules Renard
10. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. - Jules Renard
11. I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all. - Jules Renard
12. It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say. - Jules Renard
13. It is not how old you are, but how you are old. - Jules Renard
14. La peur de l'ennui est la seule excuse du travail. - Boredom is the only excuse for work. - Jules Renard
15. Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard
16. Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. - Jules Renard
17. Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. - Jules Renard
18. Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. - Jules Renard
19. Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. - Jules Renard
20. The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. - Jules Renard
21. The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. - Jules Renard
22. The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. - Jules Renard
23. There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Jules Renard
24. We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?" - Jules Renard
25. We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; - for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. - Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. - Jules Renard
26. Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard
2. A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. - Jules Renard
3. An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. - Jules Renard
4. As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more. - Jules Renard
5. Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. - Jules Renard
6. Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. - Jules Renard
7. Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. - Jules Renard
8. I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. - Jules Renard
9. I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not. - Jules Renard
10. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. - Jules Renard
11. I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all. - Jules Renard
12. It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say. - Jules Renard
13. It is not how old you are, but how you are old. - Jules Renard
14. La peur de l'ennui est la seule excuse du travail. - Boredom is the only excuse for work. - Jules Renard
15. Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard
16. Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. - Jules Renard
17. Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. - Jules Renard
18. Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. - Jules Renard
19. Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. - Jules Renard
20. The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. - Jules Renard
21. The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. - Jules Renard
22. The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. - Jules Renard
23. There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Jules Renard
24. We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?" - Jules Renard
25. We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; - for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. - Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. - Jules Renard
26. Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard
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