Georges Simenon Quotes

"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Life, Death, Fear)

"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Words)

"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Profession, Unhappiness, Vocation, Writing)

"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Light)

"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Mountains, World)

"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: People, Communication, Fact, World)

"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Communication, Example, Will)

"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Men)

"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Moon, Mountains, Night, Nothing)