1. Citations
  2. Auteurs
  3. Richard Yates

Richard Yates citations

Richard Yates, né le 3 février 1926 à Yonkers et mort le 7 novembre 1992 à Birmingham , est un romancier, nouvelliste et scénariste américain.

Il est réputé pour ses descriptions de la vie de la classe moyenne américaine du milieu du XXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. février 1926 – 7. novembre 1992
Richard Yates: 24 citations0 J'aime

Richard Yates: Citations en anglais

“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates

“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre The Easter Parade

Source: The Easter Parade

“She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates

“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Source: Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

“Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Young Hearts Crying

Source: Young Hearts Crying

“Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Cold Spring Harbor

Source: Cold Spring Harbor

“Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates

“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates livre Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“There was no readiness for soldiering in this truck, no stern and cocky welcoming of challenges. They sounded - oh, Mother of God - they sounded like children.”

Help us translate this quote

Richard Yates A Good School

Source: Novels, A Good School (1978), p.165 (Ch.7)