You don’t have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
It is bitter to think of one’s best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.
Why should you care for a woman like me? I’m always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.
I’m afraid of NOTHING except being bored!
I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.
I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
I always look well when I’m near death.
All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that’s all. So far I’ve had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.
Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn’t started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.
I don’t want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
I’ve always wanted two lives – one for the movies, one for myself.
I’m not always sincere. One can’t be in this world, you know.
It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise...
Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
I have made enough faces.