Julia Kristeva Quotes

#1. Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

Julia Kristeva

#2. But by the way, who is the murderer? The one who does not know my relatives, or myself, as I erect my new life like a fragile mausoleum where their shadowy figure is integrated, like a corpse, at the source of my wandering?

Julia Kristeva

#3. The foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves.

Julia Kristeva

#4. Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?

Julia Kristeva

#5. Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it
on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.

Julia Kristeva

#6. Music, rhythm, rigadoon, without end, for no reason.

Julia Kristeva

#7. He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins.

Julia Kristeva

#8. Since he has nothing, since he is nothing, he can sacrifice everything.

Julia Kristeva

#9. One who is happy being a cosmopolitan shelters a shattered origin in the night of his wandering.

Julia Kristeva

#10. To be deprived of parents - is that where freedom starts?

Julia Kristeva

#11. That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it ...

Julia Kristeva

#12. To be of no account to others. No one listens to you.

Julia Kristeva

#13. [the abject] is simply a frontier, a repulsive gift that the Other, having become alter ego, drops so that the "I" does not disappear in it but finds, in that sublime alienation, a forfeited existence.

Julia Kristeva

#14. Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within?

Julia Kristeva

#15. The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

Julia Kristeva

#16. Significance is inherent in the human body.

Julia Kristeva