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Top 15 Jean Giono Quotes (2024 Update)

Jean Giono Quote: “I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.”

1. “I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.”

Jean Giono Quote: “Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.”

2. “Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.”

Jean Giono Quote: “From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been in halves. As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.”

3. “From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been in halves. As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.”

Jean Giono Quote: “For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.”

4. “For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.”

Jean Giono Quote: “The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.”

5. “The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.”

Jean Giono Quote: “Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends – arrow, road, man’s life on earth. They are shaped round, in the manner of things eternal and stable – sun, world, God.”

6. “Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends – arrow, road, man’s life on earth. They are shaped round, in the manner of things eternal and stable – sun, world, God.”

Jean Giono Quote: “There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.”

7. “There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.”

Jean Giono Quote: “Everything was frozen up and silent that morning. Even the wind was silent, but not really dead. It waved about a little and beat its tail gently against the hard sky. There was no sun yet. The sky was empty. It was all frozen up, like a sheet hanging out in the frost.”

8. “Everything was frozen up and silent that morning. Even the wind was silent, but not really dead. It waved about a little and beat its tail gently against the hard sky. There was no sun yet. The sky was empty. It was all frozen up, like a sheet hanging out in the frost.”

Jean Giono Quote: “Remember, all of man’s happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.”

9. “Remember, all of man’s happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.”

Jean Giono Quote: “Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.”

10. “Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.”

Jean Giono Quote: “Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.”

11. “Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.”

Jean Giono Quote: “I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.”

12. “I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.”

Jean Giono Quote: “Creation seemed to come about in a sort of chain reaction. He did not worry about it; he was determinedly pursuing his task in all its simplicity; but as we went back towards the village I saw water flowing in Brooks that had been dry since the memory of man. This was the most impressive result of chain reaction that I had seen. These dry streams had once, long ago, run with water.”

13. “Creation seemed to come about in a sort of chain reaction. He did not worry about it; he was determinedly pursuing his task in all its simplicity; but as we went back towards the village I saw water flowing in Brooks that had been dry since the memory of man. This was the most impressive result of chain reaction that I had seen. These dry streams had once, long ago, run with water.”

Jean Giono Quote: “The sun’s last finger let go of the pine up there. The sun fell behind the hills. A few drops of blood splashed the sky. Night washed them out with her grey hand.”

14. “The sun’s last finger let go of the pine up there. The sun fell behind the hills. A few drops of blood splashed the sky. Night washed them out with her grey hand.”

Jean Giono Quote: “Soft green grass grew in front of the house. There stood the cypress too, and, as if on purpose, it was singing with its tree-voice, its sweet-sounding voice, inviting to the ear. Then there were bees which had lived under a tile and were humming in the air. And then, like a miracle, so unexpected that it made them rub their eyes, there was a small lilac tree in full blossom.”

15. “Soft green grass grew in front of the house. There stood the cypress too, and, as if on purpose, it was singing with its tree-voice, its sweet-sounding voice, inviting to the ear. Then there were bees which had lived under a tile and were humming in the air. And then, like a miracle, so unexpected that it made them rub their eyes, there was a small lilac tree in full blossom.”

Jean Giono Quote: “The gods of this land are monsters.”

16. “The gods of this land are monsters.”

Jean Giono Quote: “For myself, I pick up two stuffed turnovers, which slide down my throat like letters into a mailbox.”

17. “For myself, I pick up two stuffed turnovers, which slide down my throat like letters into a mailbox.”

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