Louis-Ferdinand Céline quote: "One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay...she missed out on all that...like me, her son...a lifetime of sacrifice!...the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy..."

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

Why kid ourselves, people have nothing to say to one another, they all talk about their own troubles...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to d...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost eve...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majorit...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing!...what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment ; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

There's no tyrant like a brain.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

S'ils se mettent à penser à vous, c'est à votre torture qu'ils pensent qu'ils songent aussitôt l...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

Tu finiras sûrement par le trouver le truc qui leur fait si peur, à eux tous, à tous ces salauds ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

I've got plenty of courage, as much as you! ... Only, if you want the whole truth ... everything, ab...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed a...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ......
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive....
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ye...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a wo...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's 'y...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

Living, just by itself / what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those ...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive....
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers mar...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
FERDINAND FOCH

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture...
FERDINAND MARCOS

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
FERDINAND FOCH

Good design should be honest.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
FERDINAND PIECH

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
FERDINAND PIECH

If you fire people, you fire customers.
FERDINAND PIECH

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedic...
FERDINAND MOUNT

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique posi...
FERDINAND MOUNT

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that h...
FERDINAND MOUNT

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connect...
FERDINAND MOUNT

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
FERDINAND MOUNT

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because i...
FERDINAND MOUNT

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
FERDINAND MOUNT

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as...
FERDINAND MOUNT

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to me...
FERDINAND MOUNT

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing throug...
FERDINAND MOUNT

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed wit...
FERDINAND MOUNT

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it...
FERDINAND MOUNT

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and indep...
FERDINAND MOUNT

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell ...
FERDINAND MOUNT

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that ...
FERDINAND MOUNT

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective ...
FERDINAND MOUNT

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
FERDINAND MOUNT

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in...
FERDINAND MOUNT

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
FERDINAND MOUNT

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent...
FERDINAND MARCOS

I am not afraid to go to jail.
FERDINAND MARCOS

The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
FERDINAND MARCOS

To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once ...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino w...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Little boys have amazing minds.
FERDINAND MARCOS

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
FERDINAND MARCOS

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
FERDINAND MARCOS

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
FERDINAND MARCOS

I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
FERDINAND MARCOS

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
FERDINAND MARCOS

The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate pu...
FERDINAND MARCOS

I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have n...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody ...
FERDINAND MARCOS

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...
FERDINAND MARCOS

I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my hon...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Once a champion, always a champion.
FERDINAND MARCOS

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
FERDINAND FOCH

No study is possible on the battlefield.
FERDINAND FOCH

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
FERDINAND FOCH

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
FERDINAND FOCH

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
FERDINAND FOCH

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
FERDINAND FOCH

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
FERDINAND BUISSON

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warf...
FERDINAND BUISSON

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
FERDINAND BUISSON

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
FERDINAND FOCH

The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on t...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN

"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on ...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the mo...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
FERDINAND FOCH

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
FERDINAND FOCH

These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Fil...
FERDINAND MARCOS

My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in ...
FERDINAND MARCOS

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little lo...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any r...
FERDINAND PORSCHE

My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignit...
FERDINAND MARCOS

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ...
FERDINAND MARCOS

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
FERDINAND MOUNT

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms conson...
FERDINAND MARCOS

America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asia...
FERDINAND MARCOS

For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the...
FERDINAND BUISSON

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad gam...
RIO FERDINAND

If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's a...
RIO FERDINAND

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
FERDINAND MARCOS

In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
FERDINAND MARCOS

I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.
FERDINAND I

I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to arg...
FERDINAND MARCOS

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch.
FERDINAND FOCH

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
FERDINAND FOCH

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and ...
FERDINAND FOCH

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football...
RIO FERDINAND

It's not really going to make anyone rich,
FERDINAND MARCOS

You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.
RIO FERDINAND

I would venture to say that if you want to buy dollars, they would be cheapest here because of the v...
FERDINAND MARCOS

We only sold a portion because, upon the advice of the World Bank, those carbon credits that we are ...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.
FERDINAND MARCOS

I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionar...
FERDINAND MARCOS

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
FERDINAND MARCOS

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for ...
FERDINAND LASSALLE

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.
RIO FERDINAND

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I hear...
FERDINAND LASSALLE

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela
RIO FERDINAND

I had a chat with the manager to get a clear picture about stories in the papers [about being droppe...
RIO FERDINAND

I played against him in training every day and he used to elbow me, kick me and head-butt me,
RIO FERDINAND

He's a fantastic player who's done very well in Scotland and he's an absolute handful.
RIO FERDINAND

He's a quality player,
RIO FERDINAND

I haven't played volleyball in over a year. I miss it but I think it helps. It's better than cross c...
RACHEL FERDINAND

They've (Chelsea) been very consistent this season and deserve credit for that. We could have put a ...
RIO FERDINAND

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in tho...
FERDINAND MARCOS

I'll be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford,
RIO FERDINAND

President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
FERDINAND MARCOS

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
FERDINAND LASSALLE

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that nig...
RIO FERDINAND

hit me like a thunderbolt.
RIO FERDINAND

We're not expecting it to be the same as then at all,
RIO FERDINAND

The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidenc...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN

Without basic restructuring, the losses at the Volkswagen brand won't be eliminated.
FERDINAND DUDENHOEFFER

It's really an open issue. I feel at the moment, it's 10 to 10 votes.
FERDINAND PIECH

Volkswagen has made a strategic decision to expand in the area of heavy commercial vehicles, in line...
FERDINAND PIECH

Above the 800 a day threshold we would have to produce the car in Europe. We will reach a decision i...
FERDINAND PIECH

I would have preferred to keep both brands. But in the way (that) it developed, I am very satisfied.
FERDINAND PIECH

The new Beetle cannot deny its origin and the magic of its shape, ... We believe the new Beetle is n...
FERDINAND PIECH

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door, ... Nobody has succeeded yet.
FERDINAND PIECH

I never thought (the crowd) was that huge. When you realize you are not
alone, you grow strong...
FERDINAND MARCOS

You even have tourists visiting the site which is great. It would make people more conscious about t...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Do You Want To?
FRANZ FERDINAND

Most people hear 'When the Levee Breaks' and they go, 'Well, it's just an homage to the 1927 Mississ...
FRANZ FERDINAND

Franz Ferdinand: Hooks And Books.
FRANZ FERDINAND

Better
FRANZ FERDINAND

The O.C.
FRANZ FERDINAND

He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips.
FRANZ FERDINAND

He and I are both big foodies.
FRANZ FERDINAND

You Could Have It So Much Better.
FRANZ FERDINAND

The rain still hasn't stopped.
FRANZ FERDINAND

The value of the final few years of life to an 80-year-old means he'll spend whatever it costs for a...
FERDINAND DUDENHOEFFER

Without basic restructuring, the losses at the Volkswagen brand won't be eliminated. Our analysis su...
FERDINAND DUDENHOEFFER

I didn't really like it up there (at Winchendon). I didn't like the dorm situation I was in. It was ...
FERDINAND BAILEY

That's who I battle every day for a starting spot. Whoever comes to play in practice, that's who's s...
FERDINAND BAILEY

He's doing good. He's up to par with his subjects. He tells me he likes it. The only thing is that t...
FERDINAND BAILEY

He felt lonely and out of place. In the summer I saw the mood that he was in, he wasn't too happy wi...
FERDINAND BAILEY

I know I can't go on forever - how can I forget it when my so-called team-mates keep asking me which...
LES FERDINAND

I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
LES FERDINAND

Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different di...
KARL FERDINAND BRAUN

In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for ...
KARL FERDINAND BRAUN

Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental...
KARL FERDINAND BRAUN

One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay...she missed out on all that...like me, her son...a lifetime of sacrifice!...the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy...

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