Books Quote by Michel Houellebecq

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

— Michel Houellebecq

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq

“In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition…

— Michel Houellebecq

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I…

— Michel Houellebecq

“... I spent whole afternoons at Bon Marché looking at pullovers, there was no sense in going on like that.”

— Michel Houellebecq

I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to…

— Michel Houellebecq

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

— Michel Houellebecq

“He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“Olga was nice, Olga was nice and loving, Olga loved him, he repeated to himself with a growing sadness as he also realised that…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Regarde, c’est la mort, mon amour.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“The problem is, it's just not enough to live according to the rules. Sure, you manage to live according to the rules. Sometimes it's…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Life sometimes offers you a chance, he thought, but when you are too cowardly or too indecisive to seize it life takes the cards…

— Michel Houellebecq