Michel Houellebecq Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.
Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal.
No doubt the Romans had felt that theirs was an eternal civilization, right up to the moment their empire fell apart. Were they suicides, too?
The transition to a salaried workforce had doomed the nuclear family and led to the complete atomization of society,
On beach holidays, as perhaps in life more generally, the only truly enjoyable time of the day is breakfast.
Men live alongside one another like cattle; it is a miracle if once in a while they manage to share a bottle of booze.
The feeling of closeness when we talked on the phone was too violent, and the void that came afterward too cruel.
In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he'd met on the internet.
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.
the tables were taken by law students talking about rave parties or 'junior associates', in other words, those things which interest law students
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts
me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.
me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism' ... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
It's hard to understand other people, to know what's hidden in their hearts, and without the assistance of alcohol it might never be done at all.
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.
Unhappiness isn't at its most acute point until a realistic chance of happiness, sufficiently close, has been envisioned.
I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.
When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.
All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.
What's amazing about Bayrou, what makes him irreplaceable," Tanneur enthused, "is that he's an utter moron.
Were they ready to give up everything for their country? I felt ready to give up everything, not really for my country, but in general.
In that time he had managed to write books that made me consider him a friend more than a hundred years later.
When you got right down to it, my dick was the one organ that hadn't presented itself to my consciousness through pain,
I didn't even want to fuck her, or maybe I kind of wanted to fuck her but I also kind of wanted to die, I couldn't really tell.
It's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way.
Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.
In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.
That old queer Nietzsche had it right: Christianity was, at the end of the day, a feminine religion.
Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.
The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.
Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.
Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define.
As I got older, I also found myself agreeing more with Nietzsche, as is no doubt inevitable once your plumbing starts to fail.
The Enlightened One, if he had meditated on it, would not necessarily have rejected a technical solution.
What would it be like when I was fifty, sixty, older? I'd be no more than a jumble of organs in slow decomposition.
Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.
The greater the proportion of pure morality in a particular system, the happier and more enduring the society.
To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.