Paris Quotes

I’m fine. I’m at an antique store, by the clothes store just a mile or so from-” “Which clothes store, Tess? If you haven’t noticed, there are about a million.

~ Embee

Day after day, the globalization of terrorism becomes more evident. This is the one of the biggest challenges we are facing. We must stand with the innocent people around the world who are suffering or have lost their loved ones as a result of terrorism.

~ Widad Akreyi

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

~ Ashley Earley

The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars.

~ Roman Payne

General sentiment, had a poll been taken, was that eventually the negative media would die down, Egypt's head of antiquities would return to Cairo, and St. Louis would enjoy her treasure. But treasures sometimes have a higher price than their acquisition cost.

~ Michele Bonnell

In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

~ Jeremy Mercer

The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had.

~ Sasha Martin

I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It’s staying in love that‘s the hard part.

~ Alexandra Potter

Is that how you’re supposed to find your soulmate and fall in love these days? By flirting in 140 character tweets and stalking each other’s social media pages?

~ Alexandra Potter

The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.If only humans understood...Most ignore it.

~ Amanda Dubin

...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness. Yet the name Paris makes me feel it.

~ Anne Rice

She loves filming and taking photographs. I can imagine her making beautiful films in France or India or somewhere with a gorgeously colourful culture. She somehow reminds me of my favourite place in the world, she and Paris I can romanticize and immortalize in ceaseless poetry for the rest of my life.

~ Moonshine Noire

Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian life.

~ Émile Zola

I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.

~ Natalie Lloyd

He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was banished, and into which he had so powerfully intervened; that human justice from which he had snatched its prey; all those tigers whose jaws perforce remained empty; those myrmidons, those judges, those executioners, all that royal power which he, poor, insignificant being, had foiled with the power of God.

~ Victor Hugo

Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here it is the city singing. Listen, then, to this chorus of bell-towers - diffuse over the whole the murmur of half a million people - the eternal lament of the river - the endless sighing of the wind - the grave and distant quartet of the four forests placed upon the hills, in the distance, like immense organpipes - extinguish to a half light all in the central chime that would otherwise be too harsh or too shrill; and then say whetehr you know of anything in the world more rich, more joyous, more golden, more dazzling, than this tumult of bells and chimes - this furnace of music - these thousands of brazen voices, all singing together in flutes of stone three hundred feet high, than this city which is but one orchestra - this symphony which roars like a tempest.

~ Victor Hugo

I'll keep you here.' He taps his temple. 'Where you can't get lost.

~ Gayle Forman

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.

~ Emma Calin

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

~ Robert Barr

The whole underneath of Paris was an ant nest, Metro tunnels, sewer shafts, catacombs, mines, cemeteries. She'd been down in the city of bones where skulls and femurs rose in yellowing walls. Right down there, win the square before them. through a dinky little entrance, were the Roman ruins like honeycomb. The trains went under the river. There were tunnels people had forgotten about. It was a wonder Paris stood up at all. The bit you saw was only half of it. Her skin burned, thinking of it. The Hunchback knew. Up here in the tower of Notre Dame he saw how it was. Now and then, with the bells rattling his bones, he saw it like God saw it -- inside, outside, above and under -- just for a moment. The rest of the time he went back to hurting and waiting like Scully out there crying in the wind.

~ Tim Winton

Back off, asshole. I haven't had a woman today, so I'm in no mood for this kind of bullshit.

~ Gena Showalter

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

~ Charles Finch

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

~ Violette Leduc

The directness of her question throws me. I don't know. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities...to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times- my voice grows quiet - that we've missed our chance.Anna. Mer pauses. That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.But—But what? You love him, and he loves you, and you live in the most romantic city in the world.

~ Stephanie Perkins

... far be it from a French man to interfere with love.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Vampires took offense SO easily—and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

~ Cassandra Clare

Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die.

~ A.g. Howard

Ironically, the first time he played it, he experienced his first dream vision with his own ‘flame jumelle’, Rune – and saved her from drowning. Thereafter he decided that must be the magic the instrument held: the ability to bring two souls together when they needed each other the most.

~ A.g. Howard

This can’t be a coincidence, and there’s no longer any doubt in my mind. I am in a horror story.

~ A.g. Howard

He raised his wine for a toast. “To the Exquisite Nightmare.

~ A.g. Howard

One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn't if one wanted to continue living contentedly in Paris. Vampires took offense so easily - and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.

~ Cassandra Clare

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate periods of work and sleep in the laboratory. He had no hobby, cared for no sport or amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. There can be no doubt that, if he had not married later a woman of exceptional intelligence, who made it the one object of her life to preserve him, he would have died many years ago from consequences of sheer neglect. So great and uncontrollable was his passion for work.

~ Nikola Tesla

For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we study the faces of 'old people' and sense that one day we will be just like them. And that is the moment when early childhood comes to an end.

~ Irène Némirovsky

You will be my souvenir in American summer,when all I can think about are Parisian springs.

~ Lori Jenessa Nelson

I remember the way his eyes pinned my body against the backdrop of Paris as if I was some rare butterfly pinned to an exhibit box.

~ Rebecca Paula

Skinny-dipping is like Paris. It's always a good idea.

~ Rebecca Paula

In the City of Light, the stars are blind. Our constellations do not reside in the skies.

~ Rj Arkhipov

The city of Paris, France, became a place of refuge for biracial Americans during slavery and at the time of the Harlem Renaissance for black musicians, fine artists, writers and others seeking opportunities to practice their craft free from American racism.

~ Sandra L. West