Francoise Sagan Quotes

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

We are not always even what we are most.

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

I like being able to play women that are growing or aren't easy to love. Maybe they are really likable, but they're annoying because they're not tapping into who they're suppose to be. You're watching them, and you're like, 'Oh, why does she keep making this decision?'

If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like you, I'm messed up and I'm capable. I'm this and that.