Quotessence
Home / Authors / Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Novelist

Filter quotes by topic

AllMenBookHadrianIfsMarguerite YourcenarHadrienHumansRomeThinkingDesireLawLifeMayMemorie Di AdrianoStillsAgeFirstsLyingSoulTrying

Famous Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

“Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.”

PeopleThinkingWantKindDesirePassionUnited StatesViolenceAchievePassionateCharacteristicsSubstitutesDesire To AchievePassionate Desire
Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey
Create image

“The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.”

MayEnoughAbleDesireLeftGrowsWatchesObjectsIllAffectionRichesTechniquePassingPassingsBelovedIndifferenceConquestFacilityAccordMultiplicity
Author:Marguerite Yourcenar
Create image