Edith Piaf famous quotes

04-17-2025

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
-- Edith Piaf

#People #Want #Cry
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
-- Edith Piaf

#Couple #Lying #Mean
I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.
-- Edith Piaf

#Dream #Morning #Night
Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.
-- Edith Piaf

#Pay #Fool #This Life
Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
-- Edith Piaf

#Law #People #Giving
Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.
-- Edith Piaf

#Stars #Use #Faults
I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
-- Edith Piaf

#Jesus #Thinking #Strange
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
-- Edith Piaf

#Life #Thinking #Tears
If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
-- Edith Piaf

#Money #Giving #Saving Money
For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
-- Edith Piaf

#Sleep #Waste #Wasting Time
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
-- Edith Piaf

#Successful #People #France
Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
-- Edith Piaf
All I've done all my life is disobey.
-- Edith Piaf

#Done #Life Is
People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
-- Edith Piaf

#Book #Phones #People
Americans want beauties, not me. Iâ€™m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Whereâ€™s my feather up the ass? They think Iâ€™m sad, theyâ€™re dumb. I donâ€™t connect to them
-- Edith Piaf

#Girl #Thinking #Dumb
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
-- Edith Piaf

#Coward #Persons
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
-- Edith Piaf

#Instinct #Streets
Drugs are a carnival in hell.
-- Edith Piaf

#Addiction #Drug #Hell
When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.
-- Edith Piaf

#Love #Glasses #Rose
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
-- Edith Piaf

#Escaping #Singing #World
Death is the beginning of something.
-- Edith Piaf
I don't want to die an old lady.
-- Edith Piaf

#Want #Wanting To Die #Old Lady
I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
-- Edith Piaf

#Song #Feelings #One Day
I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.
-- Edith Piaf

#Song #Children #Eye
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.
-- Edith Piaf

#Fly Away #Dove #Curtains
I don't lie; I improve on my life.
-- Edith Piaf

#Lying
I can die now. I've lived twice.
-- Edith Piaf

#Last Words
I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...
-- Edith Piaf

#Thinking #Dying #Ugly
Death does not exist.
-- Edith Piaf

#Doe
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
-- Edith Piaf

#Impossible #Mediocre
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
-- Edith Piaf

#Mind #Earth #Coming Back

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