Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAUStyle is a simple way of saying complicated things.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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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 a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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