# Quote — Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal

> What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.

- Author: [Simone de Beauvoir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir.md)
- Book: [All Men Are Mortal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal.md)
- Page: 201
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir#All_Men_are_Mortal_(1946)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/what-did-todays

## More from this book

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/thats-what-i-consider.md)

> One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/one-day-ill.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/if-you-live.md)