“Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.” — Roland Barthes Discourse Copy Share Image
“In the sentence “She’s no longer suffering,” to what, to whom does “she” refer? What does that present tense mean?” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman’s belongings. Began the day by looking at her photographs. A cruel mourning begins again (but had never… — Roland Barthes Grief Copy Share Image
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.” — Roland Barthes Grief Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. — Roland Barthes Inspirational Copy Share Image
“True wrestling, wrong called amateur wrestling, is performed in second-rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to the spectacular nature of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love… — Roland Barthes Body Copy Share Image
“The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same… — Roland Barthes Pleasure Copy Share Image
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Endlessly I sustain the discourse of the beloved's absence; actually a preposterous situation; the other is absent as referent, present as allocutory.… — Roland Barthes Discourse Copy Share Image
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like… — Roland Barthes Catastrophe Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
“I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I… — Roland Barthes Body language Copy Share Image
Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the… — Roland Barthes Age Copy Share Image
Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Besides intercourse (when the Image-repertoire goes to the devil), there is that other embrace, which is a motionless cradling: we are enchanted,… — Roland Barthes Incestuous Copy Share Image
“Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection… — Roland Barthes Data Copy Share Image
“Meanings can indeed be forgotten, but only if we have chosen to bring to bear upon the text a singular scrutiny. Yet… — Roland Barthes Forgetting Copy Share Image
“In wrestling, nothing exists unless it exists totally, there is no symbol, no allusion, everything is given exhaustively; leaving nothing in shadow,… — Roland Barthes Nature Copy Share Image
“[Emilio’s dinner with FM Banier] Gradually I abandon the conversation (suffering because the others might suppose I am doing so for reasons… — Roland Barthes Communication Copy Share Image
“My anxieties as to behavior are futile, ever more so, to infinity. If the other, incidentally or negligently, gives the telephone number… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing,… — Roland Barthes Suffering Copy Share Image
“In the multiplicity of writing, everything is to be disentangled, nothing deciphered; the structure can be followed, 'run' (like the thread of… — Roland Barthes Writing Copy Share Image
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes Grief Copy Share Image
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. — Roland Barthes Desire Copy Share Image
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond? — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
![“[Emilio’s dinner with FM Banier] Gradually I abandon the conversation (suffering because the others might suppose I am doing so for reasons of contempt.) FMB (supported by Youssef) embodies a strong (and ingenious) system of values, codes, seductions, styles; but even as the system gains in…” quote by Roland Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ac/roland-barthes-1062_communication_emilio-s-dinner-with-fm-banier-gradually_1747184.png)
