In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Was he really insane? At a time when the world is upside down and it's thought insane to ask why you're being… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“I tell you, little man, life's fall guys, beaten, fleeced to the bone, sweated from time immemorial, I warn you, that when… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Lili, I think, saw so many human tragedies all around her ... people arranged it between them ... this was what they… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“I'm recapitulating...condensing...it's the Readers Digest style...people only have time to read thirty pages...apparently!...maximum!...that's all they have time for! they horse around for… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things that are in… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“My idealized account was so much to her liking that it brought us together. At that moment Lola seemed to discover that… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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
