Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“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

“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

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

“Lie, copulate, and die.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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

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

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

“You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“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

“He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline