Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

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

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

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

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

"If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.

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

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

"Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)