Antoine Leiris Quotes & Sayings

No one can be healed of death. All they can do is tame it. Death is a wild animal, sharp-fanged. I am just trying to build a cage to keep it locked in. It is there, beside me, drooling as it waits to devour me. The bars of the cage that protect me are made of paper. — Antoine Leiris

If that God for whom you blindly kill made us in his image, each bullet in my wife's body will have been a wound in his heart. — Antoine Leiris

Those with no one to blame are alone with their grief. — Antoine Leiris

It is the most insignificant moments, where there is nothing to show, nothing to tell, that are the most beautiful. — Antoine Leiris

It's a small thing, a life. — Antoine Leiris

Of course, having a culprit, someone to take the brunt of your anger, is an open door, a chance to temporarily escape your suffering. And the more odious the crime, the more ideal the culprit, the more legitimate your hatred. You think about him in order not to think about yourself. You hate him in order not to hate what's left of your life. You rejoice at his death in order not to have to smile at those who remain. — Antoine Leiris

Can I come in?"

I thought that if the moon ever disappeared, the sea would retreat so no one would see it crying. I thought the winds would stop dancing. That the sun would not want to rise again.

Nothing of the kind. The world continues to turn, and meters must be read. — Antoine Leiris