Romain Gary Quotes

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don't know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are all post-synchronized and sometimes is very accomplished and looks natural.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.