Edith Piaf Quotes

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses. ~ Edith Piaf

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. ~ Edith Piaf

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death. ~ Edith Piaf

I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most? ~ Edith Piaf

I'm sure that I've already been dead. ~ Edith Piaf

You say things that make my eyes close and I find that marvelous. ~ Edith Piaf

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws. ~ Edith Piaf

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death. ~ Edith Piaf

Drugs are a carnival in hell. ~ Edith Piaf

Whenever I hear Edith Piaf sing "Non, je ne regrette rien" - which is more often than I'd like, now that I'm at university - I can't help thinking, What the hell is she talking about? I regret pretty much everything. ~ David Nicholls

I don't lie; I improve on my life. ~ Edith Piaf

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others. ~ Edith Piaf

American journalist: If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a young girl?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a child?
Edith Piaf: Love. ~ Edith Piaf

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus! ~ Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went. ~ Edith Piaf

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away. ~ Edith Piaf

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had. ~ Edith Piaf

Americans want beauties, not me. I'm not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where's my feather up the ass? They think I'm sad, they're dumb. I don't connect to them. ~ Edith Piaf

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music. ~ Lykke Li

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. ~ Joni Mitchell

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. ~ Edith Piaf

There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

Death is the beginning of something. ~ Edith Piaf

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for. ~ Edith Piaf

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face. ~ Edith Piaf

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star. ~ Edith Piaf

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove. ~ Edith Piaf

I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray. ~ Gin Wigmore

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good. ~ Edith Piaf

Your coat's a little shabby - but who cares? It doesn't keep people from asking you to dine. If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself. The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like: they don't make success, but they are a part of it. Who wants a dingy woman? We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed till we drop - and if we can't keep it up alone, we have to go into partnership. ~ Edith Wharton

The columns of the Cathedral porch were still supported on featureless porphyry lions worn smooth by generations of loungers; and above the octagonal baptistery ran a fantastic basrelief wherein the spirals of the vine framed an allegory of men and monsters symbolising, in their mysterious conflicts, the ever-recurring Manicheism of the middle ages. Fresh from his talk with Crescenti, Odo lingered curiously ~ Edith Wharton

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. ~ Edith Sitwell

Their types were familiar enough to Ralph, who had taken their measure in former wanderings, and come across their duplicates in every scene of continental idleness. ~ Edith Wharton

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession. ~ Edith Stein

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life. ~ Marion Cotillard

Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on. ~ Edith Wharton

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps. ~ Edith Evans

Answers
I kept my answers small and kept them near;
Big questions bruised my mind but still I let
Small answers be a bullwark to my fear.
The huge abstractions I kept from the light;
Small things I handled and caressed and loved.
I let the stars assume the whole of night.
But the big answers clamoured to be moved Into my life. Their great audacity
Shouted to be acknowledged and believed.
Even when all small answers build up to
Protection of my spirit, still I hear
Big answers striving for their overthrow.
And all the great conclusions coming near ~ Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next. ~ Edith Sitwell

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom. ~ Vivian Gornick

This probably sounds ridiculous. Like a modern Edith Wharton novel or something. ~ Sierra Simone

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be ~ Edith Wharton

Refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing ~ Edith Wharton

Mr. and Mrs. Wetherall's circle was so large that God was included in their visiting-list. ~ Edith Wharton

I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. ~ Edith Wharton

He woke from a dream in which Edith raised her arms to him, the liquid gold of her hair tumbling almost to her waist. 'Ah, darling,' he had been telling her, 'I am looped in the loops of your hair.' Had he said that aloud? He would never do something so imbecilic. He really had lost his mind. ~ Eloisa James

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. ~ Edith Sitwell

And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate. ~ Edith Wharton

I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn't show up at the train station tomorrow, the paper said, I would be treated as a wanted criminal and hunted down without mercy. ~ Edith Hahn Beer

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation. ~ Edith Wharton

Convention, so often a mask for injustice ... ~ Edith Hamilton

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost. ~ Edith Wharton

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics
reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world. ~ Edith Pearlman

For she was really too lovely
too formidably lovely. I was used by now to mere unadjectived loveliness, the kind that youth and spirits hang like a rosy veil over commonplace features, an average outline and a pointless merriment. But this was something calculated, accomplished, finished
and just a little worn. It frightened me with my first glimpse of the infinity of beauty and the multiplicity of her pit-falls. What! There were women who need not fear crow's-feet, were more beautiful for being pale, could let a silver hair or two show among the dark, and their eyes brood inwardly while they smiled and chatted? but then no young man was safe for a moment! But then the world I had hitherto known had been only a warm pink nursery, while this new one was a place of darkness, perils and enchantments ... ~ Edith Wharton

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~ Edith Sitwell

It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age. ~ Edith Wharton

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist. ~ Edith Widder

I've worked with the old dames and knights - Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson - they're the most incredibly humble, kindly people because they are so big that they don't need to be unpleasant. ~ Ron Moody

She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed. ~ Edith Wharton

It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station. As he paced the platform, waiting for the Washington express, he remembered that there were people who thought there would one day be a tunnel under the Hudson through which the trains of the Pennsylvania railway would run straight into New York. They were of the brotherhood of visionaries who likewise predicted the building of ships that would cross the Atlantic in five days, the invention of a flying machine, lighting by electricity, telephonic communication without wires, and other Arabian Nights marvels. ~ Edith Wharton

After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money - both useful things in their way ... ~ Edith Wharton

You might think lunchtime at Willing would be different from other high schools. That everyone would be welcome at any table, united by the knowledge that we, at Willing, are the Elite, the Chosen, stellar across the board.
Um.No.Of course not.High school is high school, regardless of how much it costs or how many kids springboard into the Ivies. And nowhere is social status more evident than in the dining room (freshman and sophomores at noon; upperclassmen at one). Because, of course, Willing doesn't have a cafeteria, or even a lunch hall. It has a dining room, complete with oak tables and paneled walls that are covered with plaques going all the way back to 1869, the year Edith Willing Castoe (Edward's aunt) founded the school to "prepare Philadelphia's finest young ladies for Marriage,for Leadership, and for Service to the World." Really. Until the sixties, the school's boastful slogan was "She's a Willing Girl."
Almost 150 years, three first ladies, and one attorney general-not to mention the arrival of boys-later, female members of the student body are still called Willing Girls. You'd think someone in the seventies would have objected to that and changed it. But Willing has survived the seventies of two different centuries. They'll probably still be calling us Willing Girls in 2075. It's a school that believes in Tradition, sometimes regardless of how stupid that Tradition is. ~ Melissa Jensen

His days were full and they were filled decently, he supposed it was all a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. ~ Edith Wharton

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. ~ Edith Wharton

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. ~ Edith Sitwell

My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked. ~ Edith Konecky

At some point we must plunge in to discover a greater expanse; yet when this broader horizon does appear, a new depth will open up at our point of entry. ~ Edith Stein

Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her
of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated
he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch. ~ Edith Wharton

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! ~ Edith Wharton