All Michel Houellebecq Quotes
- Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six… Absolute
- To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the… Become Impossible
- The most stupid religion is Islam. Inspirational
- Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity. Abideth
- Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel… Adolescence
- Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of… Concern
- Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full… Adolescence
- A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided… Accessible
- I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting. Bodybuilding
- There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind. Always Changing
- In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate. Hate
- Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction… According
- The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. Betray
- Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Active
- I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. Definitely
- I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be. Decided
- I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. Life
- I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky
- In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. Exaggerates
- Islam is a dangerous religion. Dangerous
- My novels are all ideas. All
- Polemical debates happen all the time in France. All
- The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America. America
- The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human… Advantage
- The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter. Battle