Narrative Dialectic Quotes by Roland Barthes

“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects have done…

— Roland Barthes

The Text is not a definitive object.

— Roland Barthes

“Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many…

— Roland Barthes

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

— Roland Barthes

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The…

— Roland Barthes

“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”

— Roland Barthes

“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated…

— Roland Barthes

“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.”

— Roland Barthes

“So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper…

— Roland Barthes

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived…

— Roland Barthes

“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an…

— Roland Barthes

“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from…

— Roland Barthes