Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
JEAN COCTEAULove is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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