Skip to content

Quotes from Alexis — Marguerite Yourcenar

1903–1987 Belgium

← All quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar

7 quotes

It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.

Alexis (1929)

One must not fear the words anymore when one consented to the things.

Alexis (1929)

To have merit to abstain from a fault, is a manner to be guilty.

Alexis (1929)

Our defects are sometimes the better adversaries when we oppose our vices.

Alexis (1929)

We believe ourselves pure as long as we despise what we do not desire.

Alexis (1929)

All would have transformed us if we had the courage to be what we are.

Alexis (1929)

Every silence is composed of nothing but unspoken words. Perhaps that is why I became a musician. Someone had to express this silence, make it render up all the sadness it contained, make it sing as it were. Someone had to use not words, which are always too precise not to be cruel, but simply music.

Alexis (1929)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marguerite Yourcenar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.