"It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a...












Nature loves death: she will not punish it.

More Guy de Maupassant quotes
"Do you know how I picture God myself?" he said. "As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who scatters millions of worlds into space, just as on...
"The only certainty is death.
"Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the ...
"Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: ‘Quick! ...
"The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
"In fact living is dying.
"It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like crystal. The trees, decked out in frost, seem to have s...
"When the first fine spring days come, and the earth awakes and assumes its garment of verdure, when the perfumed warmth of the air blows on our faces ...
"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder
"There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attract...
"Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may...