Jean-Claude Izzo Quotes

#1. Happiness. One day. Ten thousand years ago. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#2. Nobody was speaking. Only the cicadas continued their whine, indifferent to human tragedies. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#3. The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#4. I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#5. I don't like answering private questions. The answers are often ambiguous and can be interpreted in different ways. Even when the other person is close to you. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#6. Days are only beautiful early in the morning. I should have remembered that. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. When the world opens its eyes, reality reasserts itself, and you're back with the same old shit. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#7. It's at moment of misfortune that we remember we're all exiles. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#8. Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#9. Why was it so difficult to make new friends once you were past forty Was it because we didn't have dreams anymore, only regrets? - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#10. Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#11. Killing was easy. Dying was something else. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#12. Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#13. I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#14. The one thing I could give them was a smile. I've always been good at smiles. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#15. ...I understand where you're coming from. I know it isn't just a question of revenge. It's the feeling there are some things you can't let pass. If you did, you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror afterwards. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#16. So much violence. If God existed, I'd have strangled him on the spot. Without batting an eyelid. And with all the fury of the damned. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo

#17. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. - Author: Jean-Claude Izzo