Louis-Ferdinand Céline Quotes

I'd take cyanide no problem if it was that or throwing a cat out in the street, even a moth-eaten, m...

Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing!...what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll ...

If only I had met Molly sooner, when it was still possible to choose one road rather than another. B...

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh...

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles....

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to d...

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our jour...

Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USS...

Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...

...she robbed me blind, the bitch!...and she's still at it! everyone who's ever done me wrong, robbe...

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything...It's not a sign ...

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive....

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majorit...

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil them...

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his ...

   "Fine! Fine! I'm listening...but it's not very interesting!...   "Oh, that's what you think! that...

I have no ideas, myself! Not a one! there's nothing more vulgar, more common, more disgusting than i...

Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it ...

One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a g...

Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the scre...

We have got into the habit of admiring colossal bandits, whose opulence is revered by the entire wor...

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost eve...

I don't have to worry about Madame Ouche! she'll still be robbing me blind when she's dead!...having...

...apparently "London" gave out my address! that's what they're saying...not just London, though! Br...

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

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than ...

The mother was looking at nothing and listening to nothing but herself. “It’ll kill me, doctor! I’ll...

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to pu...

Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of...

There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swa...

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate...

You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country? They stuff an old wallet with ...

There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're ...

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and th...

My mother, writing from France, admonished me to take care of my health as she had during the war. M...

Death after all is only a matter of a few hours, a few minutes, but a pension is like poverty, it la...

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It ...

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song ...

And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth ...

Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is...

The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths...

A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is i...

Now was the time to make quick tracks. Back to Fort-Gono, retrace my steps? Try to explain my conduc...