Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one.
That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.
He's fiddling around in his pocket ... nothing to worry about ... all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets ... a pistol? an erection?
A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.
Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.
Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
I have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)
Let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
He had the same trouble as all intellectuals - he was ineffectual. He knew too many things, and they confused him.
That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I
Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.
Well, you know ... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer ... it's incommunicable ...
A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.
Our trouble isn't lack of perseverance, it's that we're not on the right road that leads to an easy death. Going
Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.
Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits ...
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
At the bottom of all music you have to hear the tune without notes, made just for us, the tune of Death.
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.
Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's
Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches?
"Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...
"Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...
Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.
what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then
go ahead! And with all your might! Make them
hear you!
go ahead! And with all your might! Make them
hear you!
I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away ... past, present, and future together.
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.