Guy De Maupassant: Living

Guy De Maupassant was French writer. Explore interesting quotes on living.
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“In fact living is dying.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

“You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.”

Guy De Maupassant

“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”

Guy De Maupassant

“It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”

Guy De Maupassant

Variant: It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

“We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.”

Guy De Maupassant book Sur l'eau

Sur l’eau (1888)

“I have come to the conclusion that the bed comprehends our whole life; for we were bom in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.”

Guy De Maupassant

"The Bed"

“There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort … The need of work is in me.”

Guy De Maupassant

As quoted in Contemporary Portraits (1920) by Frank Harris, p. 263