Roland Barthes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.”

“I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.”

“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.”

“The New is not a fashion, it is a value.”

“For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.”

“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”

“Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.”

“Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.”

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”

“The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!”