338 Quotes by Roland Barthes

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die...

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

...language is never innocent.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.