Quotes from Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

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

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. 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.

There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.