Louis-Ferdinand CelineTo philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.361Life
Louis-Ferdinand CelineA God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’… ▶373Reading
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThe 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.373Politics
Louis-Ferdinand CelineLove is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!363Love
Louis-Ferdinand CelineLiving, 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 a… ▶374LifeReadingThought
Louis-Ferdinand CelinePhilosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.364Humor
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThe plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.354Truth
Louis-Ferdinand CelineOne can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.354LifeReading
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThe novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is… ▶322Reading
Louis-Ferdinand CelineChin up, Ferdinand, I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so… ▶366Death
Louis-Ferdinand CelineNot 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… ▶322DeathLifeTruth
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThere's no tyrant like a brain.345Thought
Louis-Ferdinand CelineIn circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.367HopeTime
Louis-Ferdinand CelineOnly a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.357HumorLifeThought
Louis-Ferdinand CelineAlmost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. ✨ Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932.324Love
Louis-Ferdinand CelineAn 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.324HumanityTime
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThe beginning of genius is being scared shitless.346Time
Louis-Ferdinand CelineNever 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.281Love
Louis-Ferdinand CelineA 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.315Reflection
Louis-Ferdinand CelineAn Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.327Life
Louis-Ferdinand CelineLove, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.329Love
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThere are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, … ▶297Time
Louis-Ferdinand CelineIt is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.231Reflection
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThe 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.275Humanity
Louis-Ferdinand CelineAll great innovations are built on rejections.3210Hope
Louis-Ferdinand CelineI warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage. ✨ Journey to the End of the Night. Book by Louis… ▶232Reading
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThis instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who… ▶232Humanity
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThe 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 crummine… ▶309DeathHumanityLife
Louis-Ferdinand CelineWe never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of cha… ▶243DeathLife
Louis-Ferdinand CelineWhen men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.299Life
