Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes

" Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. " # Death and Dying # Time and Time Management # Love

" Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish. " # Justice

" One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. " # Forgiveness # Love # Life and Living

" Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain. " # Life and Living # Bores and Boredom # Success

" Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. " # Desire # Punishment # Poverty and The Poor

" Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine. " # Disease # Medicine # Tragedies

" Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. " # Experience # Love # Friends and Friendship

" The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. " # Heroes and Heroism # Love # Poetry and Poets

" We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. " # Labor # Advice # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. " # Life and Living # Work # Writers and Writing