Time Quote by Édouard Levé

“Once you confessed to someone that you had been very depressed when dining with her several months earlier. She was stunned, discovering her blindness…

— Édouard Levé

“You couldn’t have been said to dance, exactly. Despite the music sounding around you, bodies being carried away by the whirling bass, it didn’t…

— Edouard Levé

“Only the living seem incoherent. Death closes the series of events that constitutes their lives. So we resign ourselves to finding a meaning for…

— Édouard Levé

“I am slow to notice when someone mistreats me, it’s always so surprising: evil is somehow unreal.”

— Édouard Levé

“You directed toward yourself a violence that you did not feel toward others. For them you reserved all your patience and tolerance.”

— Édouard Levé

“I have never attended a nudist funeral.”

— Édouard Levé

“You didn’t identify with happy people, and in your excessiveness you projected onto those who had failed in everything, or succeeded in nothing.”

— Édouard Levé

“I want this epitaph engraved on my tombstone: “See you soon”

— Édouard Levé

“In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.”

— Édouard Levé

“I wonder whether anyone besides old people like riot police.”

— Édouard Levé

“You were said to have died of suffering. But there was not as much sadness in you as there is now in those who…

— Édouard Levé

“Only once can I say “I’m dying” without telling a lie. The best day of my life may already be behind me.”

— Edouard Leve