“ Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities,… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ My mother, writing from France, admonished me to take care of my health as she had during the war. My head could be all set for the guillotine, and still my mother would scold me for forgetting my muf… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ I have no ideas, myself! Not a one! there's nothing more vulgar, more common, more disgusting than ideas! libraries are loaded with them! and every sidewalk cafe!...the impotent are bloated with ideas… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ If only I had met Molly sooner, when it was still possible to choose one road rather than another. Before that bitch Musyne and that little turd Lola crimped my enthusiasm. But it was too late to star… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ I don't have to worry about Madame Ouche! she'll still be robbing me blind when she's dead!...having made her last confession and received extreme unction...all the cataclysms will pass over her witho… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ The mother was looking at nothing and listening to nothing but herself. “It’ll kill me, doctor! I’ll die of shame!” I made no attempt to dissuade her. I didn’t know what to do. We could see the father… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793) Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ 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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ 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. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ We have got into the habit of admiring colossal bandits, whose opulence is revered by the entire world, yet whose existence, once we stop to examine it, proves to be one long crime repeated ad infinit… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swallowed up the road two steps ahead of us, only a little sliver of road about the size of your tongue… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ ...she robbed me blind, the bitch!...and she's still at it! everyone who's ever done me wrong, robbed me, repudiated me, pillaged me has never suffered...and never will suffer! you could call it their… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything...It's not a sign of intelligence...Nothing to boast about, memory...that's just how it is... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Now was the time to make quick tracks. Back to Fort-Gono, retrace my steps? Try to explain my conduct and the circumstances of the present disaster? I hesitated . . . Not for long. Nothing can be expl… Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
