Raymond Radiguet Quotes & Sayings

Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ? — Raymond Radiguet

It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted like ice the moment someone was kind enough to show they cared about me, and in a way that suited me. — Raymond Radiguet

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else - and failing. — Raymond Radiguet

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. — Raymond Radiguet

Instinct is our guide; a guide that leads to ruin. — Raymond Radiguet

We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity. — Raymond Radiguet

Might becomes apparent only through injustice. — Raymond Radiguet

What distresses us is not loosing life, but losing what gives it meaning. — Raymond Radiguet

In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship. — Raymond Radiguet

Happiness thinks only of itself. — Raymond Radiguet

Her hands clung to my neck; they would not have held me so fast in a shipwreck. And I did not understand whether she wanted me to save her or to drown with her. — Raymond Radiguet

In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is less like a thing that that which is closest to it. A man who had been near to death thinks how he knows death. When the day finally comes for him to meet it, he does not recognise it. 'This is not it,' he says, as he dies. — Raymond Radiguet

People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores
Words are bumping into each other
("Poem") — Raymond Radiguet

Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it. — Raymond Radiguet

True premonitions grow in depths where our thoughts never go. And sometimes they make us do things whose meaning we totally misunderstand. — Raymond Radiguet

We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. — Raymond Radiguet

Instinct is ourguide; a guide which leads to our fall. — Raymond Radiguet

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable. — Raymond Radiguet

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. — Raymond Radiguet