31 quotes found
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”
“It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.”
“Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.”
“A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.”
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
“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)”
“Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough ...”
“And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been...”
“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”
“The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.”
“We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't...”
“You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country? They stuff an old wallet with putrid chicken innards. Well, take it from me, a man is just like that, except that he's fatter a...”
“Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at ...”
“Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.”
“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 e...”
“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 cryp...”
“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 ton...”
“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 infi...”
“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.”
“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.”
