Celine Quotes

“When life becomes difficult. the only source of strength we have is love. Love of others, love of self, love of life in its entirety.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Beautiful

“Celine snorted. “Never have I ever had a thing for blondes,” she said. And then, her eyes on Sloane, she shot our statistician a dazzling smile and lowered her own finger —meaning that she did have a thing for blondes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“First of all read Céline; the greatest writer of 2,000 years”
― Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“. . .the infinite captivates us because it allows us to believe all things are possible. That true love can last beyond time.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Beautiful

“Ce qui guide encore le mieux, c'est l'odeur de la merde.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Maybe we like to think different, but the world leaves us long before we leave it...for good.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“If you've got to be unhappy, you may as well keep regular habits.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“You need a heart and a certain amount of knowledge to go further than other people.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“With hardly a thought of what he was doing, he had consented to years of torture, to the crushing of his life in this torrid monotony for the sake of a little girl to whom he was vaguely related. Motivated by nothing but his good heart, he had set no conditions and asked nothing in return. To that little girl far away he was giving enough tenderness to make the whole world over, and he never showed it.

Suddenly he fell asleep in the candlelight. After a while I got up to look at his face. He slept like everybody else. He looked quite ordinary. There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good people from bad.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Junk is fragile. I ruined tons of stuff, never on purpose. The thought of antiques still makes me sick, but that was our bread and butter. The scrapings of time are sad. . . lousy, sickening. We sold the stuff over the customer's dead body. We'd wear him down. We'd drown his wits in floods of hokum. . . incredible bargains. . . we were merciless. . . He couldn't win. . . If he had any wits to begin with, we demolished them. . . He'd walk out stunned with the Louis XIII cup in his pocket, the openwork fan with cat and shepherdess wrapped in tissue paper. You can't imagine how they revolted me, grown-ups taking such crap home with them.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Death on the Installment Plan

“Trust in this important lesson I learned long ago; Rage is a moment. Regret is forever.”
― Renée Ahdieh