Sad Cypress Quotes

“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One does not live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead,' don’t want to die! People who apparently have got everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they have not got the energy to fight.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“You weren't quite accurate just now."
"I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Everything costs so much—clothes and one’s face—and just silly things like cinemas and cocktails—and even gramophone records!’ Roddy”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“.... she was like a flower.
And suddenly, for a vivid minute, Hercule Poirot had a new conception of
the dead girl. In that halting rustic voice the girl Mary lived and bloomed
again. "She was like a flower."
There was suddenly a poignant sense of loss, of something exquisite
destroyed. In his mind phrase after phrase succeeded each other. Peter
Lord's "She was a nice kid." Nurse Hopkins's "She could have gone on the
films any time." Mrs. Bishop's venomous "No patience with her airs and
graces." And now last, putting to shame, laying aside those other views,
the quiet, wondering, "She was like a flower.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Peter Lord said:

“Oh, well, I suppose she and Roderick Welman will live happy ever afterwards.”

Hercule Poirot said:

“My dear friend, you suppose nothing of the sort!”

“Why not? She’ll forgive him the Mary Gerrard business. It was only a wild infatuation on his part, anyway.”

Hercule Poirot said:

'It goes deeper than that… There is, sometimes, a deep chasm between the past and the future. When one has walked in the valley of the shadow of death, and come out of it into the sunshine—then, mon cher, it is a new life that begins… The past will not serve….”

He waited a minute and then went on:

“A new life… That is what Elinor Carlisle is beginning now—and it is you who have given her that life.”

“No.”

“Yes. It was your determination, your arrogant insistence that compelled me to do as you asked. Admit now, it is to you she turns in gratitude, is it not?”

Peter Lord said slowly:

“Yes, she’s very grateful—now… She asked me to go and see her—often.”

“Yes, she needs you.”

Peter Lord said violently:

“Not as she needs—him!”

Hercule Poirot shook his head.

“She never needed Roderick Welman. She loved him, yes, unhappily—even desperately.”

Peter Lord, his face set and grim, said harshly:

“She will never love me like that.”

Hercule Poirot said softly:

“Perhaps not. But she needs you, my friend, because it is only with you that she can begin the world again.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Life, [...], whatever else it is, is not reasonable.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Not at all. She condemned herself―because she judged herself by a more exacting standard that ordinary humanity applies!”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“المغزى هو أن لدى المرء غريزة للعيش. لا يعيش المرء لأن عقله وافق على الحياة. إن من نقول عنهم:"إن من الأفضل لهم أن يموتوا" لا يريدون الموت،وأولئك الذين يمتلكون-ظاهرياً-كل ما يمكن أن يُعاش لأجله نراهم يتركون أنفسهم يذبلون حتى الموت لأنهم يفتقرون إلى طاقة الكفاح والمقاومة.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Un pò difficile capire come stavano le cose quando c'era di mezzo Elinor. In realtà non rivelava mai molto di ciò che pensava o sentiva. E questo gli piaceva in lei. Perché detestava le persone che vuotavano il sacco, e rivelavano subito le proprie opinioni o manifestavano i propri sentimenti...le persone che davano praticamente per scontato che l'interlocutore desiderasse sapere com'era articolato il loro meccanismo interiore. Il riserbo era sempre stato più interessante.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“A volte si apre un abisso fra il passato e il futuro. Quando una persona si è incamminata nella valle all'ombra della morte, e ne torna fuori alla luce del sole...è allora, mon cher, che comincia una nuova vita. Il passato non serve più.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“In the awesome majesty of Mrs. Bishop’s black-clad presence Hercule Poirot sat humbly insignificant.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“What can you do, M. Poirot?"

Poirot said:

"I can search for the truth.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“But the newspapers, they are so inaccurate, I never go by what they say.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“His mind usually did shy away from any concrete unpleasantness.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“I can always do with a cup of tea. I always say there’s nothing like a nice cup of tea—a strong cup!”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“إنه لمن السخف أن يستطيع رجل, رجل عادي, بل عادي تماماً, أن يفعل ذلك بامرأة! من السخف أن يكون من شأن نظرته وحدها أن تجعل العالم يدور, وأن يكون من شأن صوته وحده أن يجعل المرء يرغب قليلاً بالبكاء! من لمؤكد أن الحب ينبغي أن يكون عاطفة سارّة مفرحة, لا عاطفة تؤلم لشدّة تركيزها.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Tak bisakah kau menerima fakta-fakta? Dia mencintai Roderick Welman. Tapi apakah artinya itu? Dengan kau, dia bisa berbahagia....”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Not that Seddon gives me much confidence. He’s so confoundedly gloomy.’ ‘It is a habit, that, of lawyers.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“بغضّ النظر عن الطرف الذى يقف فيه المرء فإن عليه مواجهة الحقائق!”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress