228 Quotes by Romain Gary

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.

Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Look, what do you think it matters to me, all that – all that business of – of the body? Do you suppose I actually picked you, of my own free will? As if I’d gone out shopping and decided you were the best buy for the money? I had no choice at all... You’re you, and there’s no one, nothing else. We talk about ‘falling’ in love. Well, I ’fell.

The avantgarde are people who don’t exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don’t know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else.

Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don’t correspond. We are all post-synchronized and sometimes is very accomplished and looks natural.