Quotes from Yasmina Reza

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

Time changes everything, including the soul of a face.

there's a very well-known method for getting women, everybody knows it, it's not to say a word.

Ci sono uomini indolenti, sono fatti così, altri che non vogliono perdere un solo attimo di tempo, e si danno da fare, che differenza c'è? Gli uomini si agitano fino a quando non muoiono.

Bad weather doesn't give you ideas about going to visit a flower garden.

There's a poem by Borges that begins, Ya no es mágico el mundo. Te han dejado . The world's not magical anymore. You've been left. He says left , an everyday word, a word that makes no noise.

If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you are who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If on the other hand, I am who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I am not who I am and you're not who you are....

Yvan's a very tolerant bloke, which of course, when it comes to relationships, is the worst thing you can be. Yvan's very tolerant because he couldn't care less.

To have nobody is to have not even yourself. Somebody loving you provides a certificate of existence. When a person feels alone, he can't exist without some small social fable.

All men and women go through the same fog.

Qué error fatal poner el amor en el centro del matrimonio, amor y matrimonio no tienen nada que ver, amor y familia no tienen nada que ver, los sentimientos entre un hombre y una mujer, dentro de ese dispositivo, solo pueden esfumarse.

Someday someone should make a study of the silence that falls inside a car when you're returning home after having flaunted your well-being, partly to edify the company, partly to deceive yourself. It's a silence that tolerates no sound, not even the radio, for who in that mute war of opposition would dare to turn it on?

What there will be, unfortunately, on the one side is silence, and on the other, evidence of bitterness, evidence of injustice, lack of gentleness, lack of pity. An anatomy of melancholy.

Habla de un allegado. Es frágil, dice. No es sólido, dice. Puedes ser sólido y frágil. Por otra parte, la fragilidad es lo que hace soportable la solidez. Oigo la última frase como destinada a él mismo.

Which is weird for a Portuguese. The Portuguese like big balls, fat, and car catalogs.

That is how desirable women are, my boy: a little superficial, a little absentminded, inclined to nebulous ideas.

The world shrivels me day by day.

Is there a life outside oneself? Is there a reality outside oneself?

Life is our impatient desires. Reality is what has to give way. That's my theory. The rest is women's nonsense.

I knew your mother had turned into an American the day I heard her at dinner casually mentioning, excuse the detail, toes and earlobes as erogenous zones.

Essere felici è un talento.

Un giorno non esistevo, un giorno non esisterò. Tra questi due istanti di indifferenza del mondo, mi sforzo di esistere. E' una modalità ondeggiante, agitata da turbini, disorientata. Tra queste due assenze, andiamo dove ci conducono i nostri passi, calpestiamo il mondo e i suoi luoghi…

Genç olmak bu olmal?, önünde y?llar olmas?. Yani hiçbir ÅŸey. Derin bir çukur. Ama içine düÅŸtüÄŸün bir çukur deÄŸil. Çukur yukar?da, kar??nda.

Tutto ciò che di grande e bello c'è al mondo, gratta gratta, non è mai nato da un discorso razionale. Mai.