The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

- Emile Chartier

To think is to say 'no.'

- Emile Chartier

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

- Emile Chartier

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

- Emile Chartier

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

- Emile Chartier

Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but extern…

- Emile Chartier

It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be hap…

- Emile Chartier

Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, lik…

- Emile Chartier

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it wer…

- Emile Chartier