If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote conveys that the body is not merely a physical entity but an embodiment of our experiences and aspirations.
Simone De Beauvoir emphasizes that the body should be viewed as more than just a physical thing; rather, it serves as a contextual frame for our existence and the life we aim to build. It represents our connection to the world around us and articulates our personal journey, reflecting the interplay between our identity, desires, and experiences.
Themes
BodyIdentityExistenceExperiencePhilosophy
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about self-acceptance, this quote can illustrate the importance of perceiving oneself beyond physical attributes.
More from Simone De Beauvoir
All quotes βTwo separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
Simone De BeauvoirRead
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present β¦ Eating, sleeping, cleaning β the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Similar quotes
In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.
BonaventureRead
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
SukarnoRead
I didnβt want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.
Sylvia PlathRead
I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.
Colson WhiteheadRead
What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Hilaire BellocRead