Anatole France Quotes

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924

Topics

LifeChangeDieChangesLeaveUs

For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.

John Burnside

BirdIdentityWorldSongLoseWay

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

John Barrowman

StandHouseGoOutsideUpFront

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

Ann Bancroft

JourneyTruthHeartMomentMeRise

Screenwriting, as a whole, tends to be more objective. In a novel, you can have chapters of stream-of-consciousness writing that add depth to the plot and characters. Film doesn't allow for that by its nature, at least in the long form.

Stephen McFeely

NatureWritingLongYouMorePlot

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

Ronnie Dunn

LoveHomeMusicTimeMoneyMan

I tell founders all the time, 99.9 percent chance of failure.

Michael Seibel

FailureTimeChanceTellFounders

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

Jose Andres

FamilyMomentSchoolWelcomeParents

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

Donald Hall

UnknownGalaxyAlertRemainsHowever

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

Christopher Dawson

LanguageUnderstandingObstacle

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

Corazon Aquino

PositiveI AmBelieveYouMiracles

At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

Brendan Myers

LonelinessExperienceMindIsolation

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Sydney J. Harris

LadyBornBedNeverOverGot

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