Jean Cocteau Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.”

“It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.”

“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”

“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.”

“Life is a horizontal fall.”

“The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.”

“There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.”

“The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.”

“There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.”

“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.”