“The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
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… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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
“We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline 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
“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
“But maybe it's wrong of me to complain … I'm alive after all … and I lose an enemy or two every… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Hurry hurry, cram yourself full of dreams to carry you through the life that's waiting for you outside, when you leave here,… — 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
“Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“We went there to grope for our happiness, which all the world was threatening with the utmost ferocity. We were ashamed of… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“I’d always worried about being practically empty, about having no serious reason for living. And now, confronted with the facts, I was… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Study changes a man, puts pride into him. You need it to get to the bottom of life. Without it you just… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick,the whole lot… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die… — 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
Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in… — 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
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
