196 Quotes by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...

Women always have some mental reservation.

Never 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.

there 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, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ...

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

An 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.