A biography for Jean Anouilhhasn’t been written yet.
“גבר מפחד זה מכוער.”
“טוב לאדם להאמין ברעיונות ולמות למענם.”
“האושר, הוא מלא ויכוחים.”
“להבין: תמיד להבין. אינני רוצה להבין.”
“When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.”
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
“One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.”
“Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.”
“Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.”
“With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.”
“Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.”
“It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.”
“Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.”
“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”
“Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.”
“We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.”
“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”
“It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me”
“Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”
“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.”