Louis-Ferdinand Céline 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.
Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
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.
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.
I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything...It's not a sign of intelligence...Nothing to boast about, memory...that's just how it is...
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.
Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)
Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler!
Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...
