Michel Houellebecq

The most stupid religion is Islam.

— Michel Houellebecq

My novels are all ideas.

— Michel Houellebecq

“Regarde, c’est la mort, mon amour.”

— Michel Houellebecq

The triumph of vegetation is total.

— Michel Houellebecq

“Quand on aime la vie, on ne lit pas.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“Quand viendra la mort ?”

— Michel Houellebecq

“No temáis a la felicidad: no existe.”

— Michel Houellebecq

Islam is a dangerous religion.

— Michel Houellebecq

...beds last on an average much longer than marriages...

— Michel Houellebecq

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

— Michel Houellebecq

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

— Michel Houellebecq

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

— Michel Houellebecq

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

— Michel Houellebecq

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

— Michel Houellebecq

“Something good had come of the accident – he had met one of his neighbours.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“The beach at Meschers was crawling with wankers in shorts and bimbos in thongs. It was reassuring.”

— Michel Houellebecq

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

— Michel Houellebecq

“But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“Jos hävittää moraalisuuden omasta persoonastaan, se on sama kuin karkoittaisi maailmasta moraalin, siinä määrin kuin se on itsestä kiinni.”

— Michel Houellebecq

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence…

— Michel Houellebecq

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character…

— Michel Houellebecq

“All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient…

— Michel Houellebecq

Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which…

— Michel Houellebecq

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I…

— Michel Houellebecq

“As soon as the genome had been cmpletely decoded (which would be in a matter of months) humanity would have complete control…

— Michel Houellebecq

Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've…

— Michel Houellebecq

I think that there is a sharp contrast for most people between life at university, where they meet lots of people, and…

— Michel Houellebecq

“The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or…

— Michel Houellebecq

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access…

— Michel Houellebecq

“After my baccalaureate, I signed up for acting lessons; there followed some inglorious years, during which I grew nastier and nastier and,…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Ja sebe ne volim. Nisam baš naklonjen sebi, a još manje imam samopoštovanja. Osim toga, nisam si zanimljiv. Već dugo poznajem vlastite…

— Michel Houellebecq

“I am persuaded that feminism is not at the root of political correctness. The actual source is much nastier and dares not…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Cand ajung la o anume varsta si experienta, barbatii prefera sa evite iubirea, li se pare mai simplu sa mearga la curve.…

— Michel Houellebecq

“The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in…

— Michel Houellebecq

“...rado bih na ljetovanje u Brazil. Vozio bih se favelama. Minibus bi bio blindiran. Promatrao bih male osmogodišnje ubojice koji sanjare kako…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Olga was nice, Olga was nice and loving, Olga loved him, he repeated to himself with a growing sadness as he also…

— Michel Houellebecq

“A cockroach appeared just as I was about to get into the bath. It was just the right time for a cockroach…

— Michel Houellebecq

“People often say that the English are very cold fish, very reserved, that they have a way of looking at things –…

— Michel Houellebecq