Marjane Satrapi Quotes

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'

Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

I met my future husband Andy fighting for trans equality, and we fell in love. A couple of months after we started dating, Andy was diagnosed with cancer, and despite getting a clean bill of health several months later, eventually his cancer came back, and it was terminal.

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

By the way, what happened to our surgeon general who warned us about AIDS and smoking? That position has been completely stripped of power.

Money can't buy happiness. Or put my family back together.

I want to bring more lawv and romance into the society.

I think love is important, but it's not popular.

I do what I love and have people around me that I care about.

Never forget how precious life is or your loved ones.

Jon has always been the romantic. He started dating before I did. I was more awkward and nervous in front of girls in high school.

Love hasn't changed, and it never will, no matter what kind of a society we become.

I don't like people who smoke and have tattoos.

I'm well aware of the health dangers of an expanding waistline and belly fat: diabetes, heart disease, stroke, even cancer.

Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?'

I would never be one to go striding over to any woman who caught my eye - after all, I'm the person who got to know my wife's parents before I plucked up the courage to talk to her.

As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It's the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.

Everything in life cannot be bought.

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.