1.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
2.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
3.
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard
4.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard
5.
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard
6.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
Jules Renard
7.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Jules Renard
8.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Jules Renard
9.
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
Jules Renard
10.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
11.
There are no friends; only moments of friendship.
Jules Renard
12.
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Renard
13.
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
Jules Renard
14.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
Jules Renard
15.
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
Jules Renard
16.
We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
Jules Renard
17.
Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.
Jules Renard
18.
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
Jules Renard
19.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Jules Renard
20.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
Jules Renard
21.
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
22.
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
Jules Renard
23.
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
Jules Renard
24.
The bourgeois are other people.
Jules Renard
25.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
Jules Renard
26.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Jules Renard
27.
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard
28.
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
Jules Renard
29.
To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
Jules Renard
30.
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
Jules Renard
31.
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
Jules Renard
32.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Jules Renard
33.
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
Jules Renard
34.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Jules Renard
35.
An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.
Jules Renard
36.
Fame is a constant effort
Jules Renard
37.
I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
Jules Renard
38.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
39.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
Jules Renard
40.
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard
41.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
Jules Renard
42.
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
Jules Renard
43.
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
Jules Renard
44.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules Renard
45.
Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.
Jules Renard
46.
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
Jules Renard
47.
Style is to forget all styles.
Jules Renard
48.
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
Jules Renard
49.
Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
Jules Renard
50.
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Jules Renard
