Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“Death after all is only a matter of a few hours, a few minutes, but a pension is like poverty, it lasts… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“The coldest most rational scientific madness is also the most intolerable. But when a man has acquired a certain ability to subsist,… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“All our misery comes from wanting at all costs to go on being Tom, Dick, or Harry, year in, year out. This body of… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share
“Now I know... we have at least two friends!... Cillie von Leiden and the hunchback... not bad in our situation... or, come right down… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share
Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share
In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share
There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share
“People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share
“He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share
“Hurry hurry, cram yourself full of dreams to carry you through the life that's waiting for you outside, when you leave here, to help… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share
“While he was cautiously preambling, I tried to form a picture of all he did each day to earn his calories, all his grimaces… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share
