196 Quotes by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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.

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.

Quand on a pas d'imagination, mourir c'est peu de choses, quand on en a, mourir c'est trop.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

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.

If you've got to be unhappy, you may as well keep regular habits.

Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They've talked. They haven't said much. They've gone away. They've grown old, wretched, sluggish, each in some corner of the world.

A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.