Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
Living is abnormal.
All theatre is absurd.
I am not capitulating.
I just can't get used to life.
A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
We haven't the time to take out time.
Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
We have not the time to take our time.
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
You can only predict things after they have happened.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
