Francoise Sagan Quotes

I can say I'm a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don't have to date because dating is horrible.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

I’ve always preferred having girlfriends to just seeing people.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it's a good thing to be undateable. There's a difference between being unlovable and undateable.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!

The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.