Louis-ferdinand Céline citáty

„Je to vždy tak, že kňaz už dávno myslí na niečo celkom iné, zatiaľ čo kostolník ešte verí v Boha.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

„Byť sám znamená cvičiť sa na smrť.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

„Dôverovať ľuďom, to je už ako sa dať trochu zabiť.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

„Chudobní, čiže ľudia, ktorých smrť nikoho nezaujíma.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

„Klamstvo, ten sen prichytený pri čine a jediná láska ľudí.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

„Láska je nekonečno na dosah pudlíkov.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

„Myšlienková neschopnosť odsudzuje niektorých na to, aby nenávideli bez akéhokoľvek zamerania.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

„Nič nie je zadarmo na tomto podlom svete. Za všetko sa pyká, za dobré i za zlé sa platí skôr, či neskôr. Dobré je nevyhnutne omnoho drahšie.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

„Väčšina ľudí zomiera až na poslednú chvíľu. Ostatní začínajú a púšťajú sa do toho dvadsať rokov dopredu a často viac. To sú nešťastníci zeme.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline

„Medicine is a thankless profession. When you get paid by the rich, you feel like a flunky, by the poor like a thief. How can you take a fee from people who can’t afford to eat or go to the movies? Especially when they’re at their last gasp. It’s not easy. You let it ride. You get soft-hearted. And your ship goes down.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline, kniha Journey to the End of the Night

Zdroj: Journey to the End of the Night

„Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline, kniha Journey to the End of the Night

Zdroj: Journey to the End of the Night

„It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline, kniha Journey to the End of the Night

Zdroj: Journey to the End of the Night

„This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline, kniha Journey to the End of the Night

Zdroj: Journey to the End of the Night

„The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline, kniha Journey to the End of the Night

Zdroj: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 5
Kontext: Then I fell sick, I was delirious, driven mad by fear, they said at the hospital. Maybe so. The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.

„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

„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

„The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline, kniha Journey to the End of the Night

Zdroj: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 5

„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, kniha Journey to the End of the Night

Zdroj: Journey to the End of the Night

„There's no tyrant like a brain.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline, kniha Journey to the End of the Night

Zdroj: Journey to the End of the Night