D. Simone Quotes

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.

I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

You’re dangerous,” he says. “Why?” “Because you make me believe in the impossible

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

It's a good time for black people to be alive.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

I would hope I would inspire kids everywhere to know that you can do anything you put your mind to.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.