English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Jean Genet Quotes

Jean Genet quote: "Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows..."

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'. Morris Hite
After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?"I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me."What?"That No is a better word than Yes," he replied. Flann O'Brien
Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job. Jan Brewer
Paulo Coelho quote: "Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing."
Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing. Paulo Coelho
Gwen Stefani quote: "I work out five days a week; I can't imagine not doing it."
I work out five days a week; I can't imagine not doing it. Gwen Stefani
Franz Kafka quote: "What am I doing here in this endless winter?"
What am I doing here in this endless winter? Franz Kafka
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. Mindy Kaling
Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small child. We are spiritually and culturally paralyzed, unable to face the vastness, to embrace our lack of centrality and find our actual place in the fabric of nature. We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go. That we even do science is a hopeful glimmer of mental health. However, it's not enough merely to accept these insights... Ann Druyan
Paul Tillich quote: "The first duty of love is to listen."
The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying...and every day on the balcony of the sea wings open fire is born and everything is blue again like morning. Pablo Neruda
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? Graham Greene
by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago. Jodi Picoult
Stuart Pearce quote: "I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work..."
I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way. Stuart Pearce
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages? Virginia Woolf
Margaret Atwood quote: "As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and..."
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Margaret Atwood