At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

- Francoise Sagan

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

- Francoise Sagan

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

- Francoise Sagan

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

- Francoise Sagan

I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.

- Francoise Sagan

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

- Francoise Sagan

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but…

- Francoise Sagan

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

- Francoise Sagan

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well …

- Francoise Sagan