Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Citations en anglais (Page 2)

“Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.”

“An Immense hatred keeps me alive… i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.”

“Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.”

“When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.”

“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”

“People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.”

“A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.”

“Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.”

“A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.”

“In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable.”

“troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief…”

“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.”

“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”

“Life must go on, even if it's no joke… just pretend to believe in the future.”

“only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny… any life!…”

“In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away… past, present, and future together.”

“To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.”

“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.”

“The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.”