“only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ...”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
“Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
“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.”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
“There's no tyrant like a brain. ”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time. ”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)
“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)