Funeral Rites Quotes

“I am his tomb. The earth is nothing. Dead. Staves and orchards issue from my mouth. His. Perfume my chest, which is wide, wide open. A greengage plum swells his silence. The bees escape from his eyes, from his sockets where the liquid pupils have flowed from under the flaccid eyelids. To eat a youngster shot on the barricades, to devour a young hero, is no easy thing. We all love the sun. My mouth is bloody. So are my fingers. I tore the flesh to shreds with my teeth. Corpses do not usually bleed. His did.”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself.”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“إنني ثمل بالحياة، بالعنف، باليأس”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“لا يحق لي أن أكون فرحًا. الضحك يدنس آلامي”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“الموت ليست أمرًا جادًا أيتها الشابة، نحن نراه في كل يوم”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“The highest moment of freedom
was attained. To fire on God, to wound him and make him a deadly enemy.
I fired. I fired three shots.”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“Mais encore, malgré ma vie au soleil et mon corps vivant, je reste attiré par les êtres qu'on appelle ténébreux, ceux en qui quelque chose me révèle la nuit, ceux qui sont enveloppés de nuit, fût-ce cette nuit qu'est encore l'éclat dont ils rayonnent, ceux qui sont bruns ou blonds avec des yeux noirs, ou avec un visage crispé, un sourire mauvais, des dents méchantes, un sexe important, une toison épaisse. Je leur crois une âme dangereuse.”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“كل شيء يجب أن يتم ضمن حدود اللحظة، بما أني في اللحظة التالية سأكون بين الأموات”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

“Hij wilde snel bereiken wat voor hem weggelegd was, zodat de dood hem kon meenemen zonder dat hij ergens spijt van had.”
― Jean Genet, Funeral Rites