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Top 20 Pierre Loti Quotes (2025 Update)

Pierre Loti Quote: “I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.”

1. “I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?”

2. “I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.”

3. “Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.”

4. “Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.”

5. “The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.”

6. “Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.”

7. “It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.”

8. “I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.”

9. “My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.”

10. “My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.”

11. “Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen – sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.”

12. “If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen – sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.”

13. “But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.”

14. “I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.”

15. “It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.”

16. “My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.”

17. “I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “Unlike most other children, – especially unlike those of today – who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.”

18. “Unlike most other children, – especially unlike those of today – who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.”

19. “I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.”

20. “Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.”

21. “Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.”

22. “I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.”

— Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti Quote: “Some time, when man shall have made all things alike, the earth will be a dull, tedious dwelling-place, and we shall have even to give up travelling and seeking for a change which can no longer be found.”

23. “Some time, when man shall have made all things alike, the earth will be a dull, tedious dwelling-place, and we shall have even to give up travelling and seeking for a change which can no longer be found.”

— Pierre Loti

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