For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened. — 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 there are in… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or… — 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
Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — 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
