Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

So many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers!.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.

All in all, death is something like marriage.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.