Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk
Jean Anouilh Playwright
Gender: Male
Citizenship: France
Born: Jun 23, 1910
Died: Oct 3, 1987
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
hope
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
beauty
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
fear
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
strength
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
life
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
art