Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper. Jules Renard More Quotes by Jules Renard More Quotes From Jules Renard I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable? Jules Renard ugly sacred privilege I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self. Jules Renard insult bored self Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich. Jules Renard fashion character men If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider. Jules Renard gratitude changed eye We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it Jules Renard midlife twenties birthday Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent. Jules Renard talent actors acting Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. Jules Renard window-panes dream men An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one. Jules Renard resent meetings ifs Wrinkles are engraved smiles. Jules Renard wrinkles getting-older smile How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey. Jules Renard delicate-things flower fall An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. Jules Renard empty-rooms attitude thinking The bourgeois are other people. Jules Renard bourgeois people To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois. Jules Renard bourgeois horror class To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine. Jules Renard wine add water If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. Jules Renard funny-inspirational lonely loneliness We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper. Jules Renard laughter laughing heaven Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. Jules Renard valentines-day inspirational love In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. Jules Renard oxen toil writing We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing. Jules Renard ignorance fire death Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it. Jules Renard talent
