Romain Gary citáty

„Stoicismus, to je když máte takový strach, že o všechno přijdete, že o to radši přijdete schválně, abyste už neměla strach.“

„Někteří lidé by raději zemřeli, než by mysleli. A také to tak dělají.“

„Život vám za úsvitu mateřskou láskou dává slib, který nikdy nedodrží. Když vás po takové lásce nějaká žena obejme a přitiskne k sobě, je to už jenom upřímná soustrast.“

„Opravdová tragédie Fausta není v tom že prodal svou duši ďáblu. Opravdová tragédie Fausta je, že není nikdo kdo by si koupil vaší duši.“

„V životě je dobré mít u sebe pár drobků koláče, když člověk chce být milován opravdu nezištně.“

„Leckteří idealisté jsou ochotni kdykoli zničit svět, aby ho snáze zachránili.“

„Skoro jsem z toho vytvořil závěr, a to že jako prostředek literárního projevu, pouze pseudonym nestačí, že je třeba ještě napsat pár knížek.“

„S mateřskou láskou vám život na úsvitu dá slib, který nemůže nikdy splnit.“

„Velké zásady mohou svět stejně tak osvítiti jako sežehnout.“

„Život se skládá z protikladů.“

“I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.”

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

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

“Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.”

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

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

“I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.”

“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”

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

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

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

“A writer’s subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.”

“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.”

“The bombs I dropped on Germany between 1940 and 1944 maybe killed a Rilke or a Goethe or a Hölderin in his cradle. And yes, of course, if it had to be done over, I would do it again. Hitler had condemned us to kill. Not even the most just causes are ever innocent.”

“During the war he was an airman and slaughtered civilians from on high.”