Top 6 Irène Némirovsky Quotes (2025 Update)

Irène Némirovsky Quote: “How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”

1. “How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”

2. “He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.”

— Irène Némirovsky

3. “This thing of Beauty is a Guilt forever.”

— Irène Némirovsky

4. “What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.”

— Irène Némirovsky

5. “Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn’t very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.”

— Irène Némirovsky

6. “Deep within everyone’s heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming. For several weeks or months, rarely longer, a beautiful young woman lives outside ordinary life. She is intoxicated. She feels as if she exists beyond time, beyond its laws; she experiences not the monotonous succession of days passing by, but moments of intense, almost desperate happiness.”

— Irène Némirovsky

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