Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — 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
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
“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
