Quotes By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.