"Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.[32]"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9line
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
67 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Louis-Ferdinand Céline →
Related Quotes
"A few days after the Normandy landings, knowing only too well that he would be either assassinated by résistants or c…"
"Beating up Jews (by Jew I mean anyone with a Jew for a grandparent, even one!) won’t help, I’m sure, that’s just goin…"
"[T]here is no doubting where Céline stood on the central moral question of the age. In the struggle of democracy agai…"
"[B]eing on the wrong side of history also served him a heaping plate of material for new work after 1945 when, in a t…"
""Louis-Ferdinand Céline," taken from his grandmother's and mother's first names, with his first novel. His second nov…"
"To many Frenchmen, the Third Republic simply did not seem worth dying for, when so many of their fathers, brothers an…"
"God is being repaired."
"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
"Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts."
"You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex."