North Quotes

“so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off of ... blah! and blah! and blahblahblah! ... you put up with it for an hour, you'll need two weeks to recover ... blah! blah!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“there are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“Lili, I think, saw so many human tragedies all around her ... people arranged it between them ... this was what they wanted ... none of her business ... animal miseries were different ... nobody paid any attention, but for her money only the animals counted ... time has passed, water under the bridge ... all in all I'd say she was right ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“You can be anywhere in the world ... under confetti, under bombs, in cellar or stratosphere, prison or embassy, on the equator in Trondhjem, you'll never go wrong, you'll get a direct response ... all they want of you is that famous Parisian vagina! la Parisienne! your man sees himself wedged between her thighs in epileptic bliss, full nuptial flight, inundating the barisienne with his enthusiasm ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“But women aren't just bodies! ... boor! they're "companions" as well! what of their charms, their grace, their twitterings? sure, sure! if suicide appeals to you ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“you've probably noticed that after the first half-century practically everybody gets leaky, they can't keep it in ... hence the cruelty of long drawn-out meals and drinking sessions ... ships and apartment houses are the same ... everything starts to leak ... sphincters, bladders, drain pipes, bowels ... the half-century is merciless for ladies and gentlemen ... worse for dogs and cats! ... with them it comes sooner! ... five ... six years ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“Now I know... we have at least two friends!... Cillie von Leiden and the hunchback... not bad in our situation... or, come right down to it, no matter where and when, peace, dead calm, wars, convulsions... so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them... shovelsful!... but hearts?... very rare!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“the old geezer was eighty, he'd been horseback riding only last year ... now he had a different sport, he went down on all fours and the kids rode him ... "giddyap, horsie!" they whipped him with his riding whip! ... till the blood came! ... he loved it! ... all around his study! faster! faster! ... los! ... into the next room ... "witches! witches!" he yelled at them, with his bare old ass! ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“Je voudrais voir un peu Louis XIV avec un "assuré social"!...Il verrait si l'Etat c'est lui !..”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“Que vous vous trouviez n'importe où... sous les confettis, sous les bombes, dans les caves ou en stratosphère, en prison ou en ambassade, sous l'Equateur ou à Trondhjem, vous êtes certain de pas vous tromper, d'éveiller le direct intérêt, tout ce qu'on vous demande : "Le fameux vagin de Parisienne!" Votre homme se voit déjà dans les cuisses, en pleine épilepsie de bonheur, en plein vol nuptial, inondant la barisienne de son enthousiasme...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North