Quotes from Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Ce qu'est beau dans le monde animal c'est qu'ils savent sans se dire, tout et tout !... et de très loin ! à vitesse-lumière !... nous avec la tête pleine de mots, effrayant le mal qu'on se donne pour s'emberlifiquer en pire ! plus rien savoir !... tout barafouiller, rien saisir !... si on se l'agite! la grosse nénette !... pas un mili d'onde !... tout nous frise !... file !...

I don't despise myself at all. I think I'm very honest, very brave, very sacrificing, I gave a lot to a lot of people. And all they gave me back is rotten tricks. That's all I see.

Happy, no. I'm unhappy because I feel myself a victim of people's rotten tricks. It's not fair and I'll say it. And I'll die saying I was unfairly treated. I've been stripped, robbed, looted, mucked up, insulted from all directions, by people who don't deserve anything. Here is exactly what I think, and I haven't any inferiority or guilt complexes towards anyone. I feel all others are guilty, not me.

My mother would offer a selection of his watercolors to the peddlers at lunch hour ... She did all she could to keep me alive, I just shouldn't have been born.

Lola: Il n'y a que les fous et les lâches qui refusent la guerre quand leur Patrie est en danger. - Ferdinand: Alors vivent les fous et les lâches.

All the currencies of Europe are relatives of the Dollar.

Silks ... China ... Men's Suits ... but what about canes? ... or crutches? Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...

On en a donc rigolé comme des cornichons.

if you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you.

Elle ne faisait que divaguer de bonheur et d'optimisme, comme tous les gens qui sont du bon côté de la vie, celui des privilèges, de la santé, de la sécurité et qui en ont encore pour longtemps à vivre

Perdemos a maior parte de nossa juventude por conta das inabilidades. Saltava aos olhos que ela ia me abandonar, minha bem-amada, de vez e em breve. Eu ainda não havia aprendido que existem duas humanidades muito diferentes, a dos ricos e a dos pobres. Precisei, como tantos outros, de vinte anos e da guerra para aprender a me manter na minha categoria, para perguntar o preço das coisas e dos seres antes de tocá-los, e em especial antes de desejá-los.

The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.

When I think now of all the lunatics I knew at Baryton's, I can't help suspecting that the only two manifestations of our innermost being are war and insanity, those two absolute nightmares.

I tell you, little man, life's fall guys, beaten, fleeced to the bone, sweated from time immemorial, I warn you, that when the princes of this world start loving you, it means they're going to grind you up into battle sausage...

They were conscientious, you couldn't deny it, and they were also flabby, heartless sons-of-bitches. In other words, they were well chosen, as mindlessly enthusiastic as any employer could dream of. Sons that would have delighted my mother, worshiping their bosses, if only she could have had one all to herself, a son she could have been proud of in the eyes of the world, a real legitimate son.

Ils racontaient sur mon compte des horreurs à n'en plus finir et des mensonges à s'en faire sauter l'imagination.

Ils dénichaient mainte fois une ration de pain (même déficient du point de vue diététique) afin de survivre quand même jusqu'à la prochaine typhoïde qui, elle, n'allait pas rater leur organisme affaibli.

Maneviyat,beden saÄŸl?kl? olduÄŸu sürece onun kibri ve zevkidir,ama hastalan?r hastalanmaz ya da iÅŸler kötüye gittiÄŸinde bu kez de derhal o bedenden kaç?? kurtulma isteÄŸidir.

Dès que dans l'existence ça va un tout petit peu mieux, on ne pense plus qu'aux saloperies.

Il n'y a pas de vanité intelligente.

There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good people from bad.

Here's the truth, simply stated...bookstores are suffering from a serious crisis of falling sales. Don't believe a single zero of all those editions claimed to be 100,000! 40,000!...even 400 copies! just for the suckers! Alack!...Alas!...only love and romance...and even then!...manage to keep selling...and a few murder mysteries...

Why kid ourselves, people have nothing to say to one another, they all talk about their own troubles and nothing else. Each man for himself, the earth for us all. They try to unload their unhappiness on someone else when making love, they do their damnedest, but it doesn't work, they keep it all, and then they start all over again, trying to find a place for it.

Gelecekten söz eden her kimse namussuzdur,tek geçerli olan güncel oland?r.Kendi ölümsüzlüÄŸüne deÄŸinmek,solucanlara söylev çekmeye benzer.