Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is. — Roland Barthes Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.” — Roland Barthes Distorting Copy Share Image
“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.” — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. — Roland Barthes Destruction Copy Share Image
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“—You have never known a Woman’s body! —I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying.” — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
“The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. — Roland Barthes Emotion Copy Share Image
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights:… — Roland Barthes Drama Copy Share Image
Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language. — Roland Barthes Language Copy Share Image
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. — Roland Barthes Infinity Copy Share Image
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more… — Roland Barthes Amorous Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. — Roland Barthes Inspirational Copy Share Image
“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.” — Roland Barthes Grief Copy Share Image
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Suffering is a form of egoism. I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making… — Roland Barthes Egoism Copy Share Image
“Another kind of joy, more sober because more responsible, is mine today as well: that of entry into a place that we… — Roland Barthes Honor Copy Share Image
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon… — Roland Barthes Bliss Copy Share Image
The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like… — Roland Barthes Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“Endlessly I sustain the discourse of the beloved's absence; actually a preposterous situation; the other is absent as referent, present as allocutory.… — Roland Barthes Discourse Copy Share Image
“In the letters he sends to his friend, Werther recounts both the events of his life and the effects of his passion;… — Roland Barthes Bad mood Copy Share Image
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates,… — Roland Barthes Advent Copy Share Image
“Gaudium is what I dream of: to enjoy a lifelong pleasure. But being unable to accede to Gaudium, from which I am… — Roland Barthes Dreams Copy Share Image
“Due allowance being made for the sounds of the language, writing aloud is not phonological but phonetic; its aim is not the… — Roland Barthes Communication Copy Share Image
But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like?… — Roland Barthes Body Copy Share Image
“We were friends and have become estranged. But this was right, and we do not want to conceal and obscure it from… — Roland Barthes Estranged Copy Share Image
“13084 Tonight I came back to the hotel alone; the other has decided to return later on. The anxieties are already here,… — Roland Barthes Anxieties Copy Share Image
