Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

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.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.