Best 15 quotes of Raymond Radiguet on MyQuotes

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 ?

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.

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

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

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

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

Happiness thinks only of itself.

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

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.

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.

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.

¿Por qué no puede uno ser para sí la mejor compañía?.

Toda moda es deliciosa mientras responda a una necesidad, nunca a una extravagancia.

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

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