People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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 ...… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t… — 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
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
Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — 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
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet… — 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
