Top 35 Marc Levy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity.”

— Marc Levy

2. “It’s when you give something that you have very little of, that you truly give. – Arthur.”

— Marc Levy

3. “Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.”

— Marc Levy

4. “Recognizing happiness when it’s lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms – and to hold on to it – that’s the heart’s intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn’t amount to much. – Arthur.”

— Marc Levy

5. “I mean what I say when i say it. After that, it’s hard to say.”

— Marc Levy

6. “Les gens qu’on aime ne meurent jamais tant qu’on les garde en soi.”

— Marc Levy

7. “There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying.” Robert Evans.”

— Marc Levy

8. “A broken heart hurts like hell, I know, but it’s better than being so empty you’ve got nothing to cry about.”

— Marc Levy

9. “Humor can be like a coat of armor when reality takes a stab at you.”

— Marc Levy

10. “The point is: no parent can live their child’s life for them, but that doesn’t keep us from the worry and heartache of seeing you unhappy. Sometimes that can even push us to action, to try and show you the way. Sometimes it’s better to be wrong and tactless as a result of loving you too much than to sit idly by and watch you suffer.”

— Marc Levy

11. “Women are fickle, you know. And men are idiots.”

— Marc Levy

12. “When you’re in front of a camera, it’s not the words that count but the way they sound. It hardly matters what you say as long as you say it with a smile.”

— Marc Levy

13. “Sharing your life with someone for whom your feelings are shaky at best – how can that be anything but a lie, a betrayal? Do you have even the faintest notion of what life looks like when the person you’re with treats you like a stranger?”

— Marc Levy

14. “Friends don’t judge friends. They just gradually learn to understand them better.”

— Marc Levy

15. “An angel passed. that’s what the French say about a comfortable silence.”

— Marc Levy

16. “Dejar entrar a alguien en la vida de uno es abatir los muros construidos para protegerse, no esperar a que el otro los derribe.”

— Marc Levy

17. “The important thing is to make a decision,” he said. “Make what decision?” “One that will enable you to live in the present instead of constantly wondering what the future will be like.”

— Marc Levy

18. “Parce que c’est pendant qu’on calcule, qu’on analyse les pour et les contre, que la vie passe et qu’il ne se passe rien.”

— Marc Levy

19. “It’s funny how we always search for reasons not to love – fear of suffering, fear of abandonment – but the love of life, oh, how much you can take for granted until you realize that, one day, you’re going to lose all of it.”

— Marc Levy

20. “If only heartache were contagious, you would love me as much as I love you.”

— Marc Levy

21. “Your future depends on your choices, on your will. It belongs to you.”

— Marc Levy

22. “Cuceririle amoroase sunt cele mai egoiste dintre cruciade.”

— Marc Levy

23. “Nous ne nous battons pas pour mourrir, mais pour la vie.”

— Marc Levy

24. “Alguna vez has convencido a un arbol de que se haga de noche para dejar paso a los pajaros?”

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25. “Like every family, mine is dysfunctional. Here as well, we find two distinct groups: families who admit it, and families who don’t and go on pretending.”

— Marc Levy

26. “I’m never going to fall in love with the idea of someone again.”

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27. “Boys like to fight, and of course, it’s in their nature. But as they grow up and their vocabulary expands, they will find the right words to express themselves and the violence will subside. Brutality is just the result of frustration, the incapacity to express oneself in words. Without words, people often resort to fists.”

— Marc Levy

28. “When an old person dies, it’s as though a library has burnt to the ground.”

— Marc Levy

29. “La solitude rend impatient, c’est l’impatience qui tue l’enfance.”

— Marc Levy

30. “You have two lives in you, Alice. The one you know, and another one. One that has been waiting for you for a very long time. They have nothing in common, apart from you.”

— Marc Levy

31. “Just because somebody is gone doesn’t mean they don’t exist anymore – with a little imagination, you’re never alone.”

— Marc Levy

32. “Some might say the most hurt you can cause is through cowardice.”

— Marc Levy

33. “Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

34. “You only need two or three details to set the scene. More than that and you can lose the reader’s interest.”

— Marc Levy

35. “If I were going to read one of your books, which one would you recommend?” “I’d recommend one by another author.”

— Marc Levy

36. “Why write tearjerkers just because they get you better reviews? You know what you have to do to win an Oscar these days? Play a character who’s lost an arm, or a leg, or a mother, or a father, or preferably all of the above. Make it miserable and squalid and base, so people will cry their eyes out and call you a genius, but if you inspire people or make them laugh? You’re not even under consideration when awards season rolls around. I’m sick of this cultural hegemony of depression.”

— Marc Levy

37. “I think one person’s courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.”

— Marc Levy

38. “The flames are burning, you may not see them, but they’re ruining your nights. Stop hiding in that broom closet and face your fears.”

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39. “At night, Paul became part of an imaginary world where he felt happy, in the company of characters who had become his friends. When he was writing, anything was possible.”

— Marc Levy