Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Teeth, Tonight

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of Circumstance: Hard times”

• That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Suicide, Heart, Bars

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

• The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Spring, Heart, Movement

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.133, Open Road Media

• The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Men, Weakness

• Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Acting, Action

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