Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by David Foenkinos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French author David Foenkinos.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

David Foenkinos is a French author and screenwriter. He studied literature and music in Paris. His novel La délicatesse is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011, with Audrey Tautou as the main character. In 2014 he was awarded Prix Renaudot for his novel "Charlotte".

French - Author | Born: October 28, 1974

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Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

David Foenkinos

Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.

David Foenkinos

We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.

David Foenkinos

But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.

David Foenkinos

Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

David Foenkinos