Quotessence
Home / Authors / Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau Quotes

Poet

Filter quotes by topic

AllArtIfsPoetPoetryMenRealityArtistFirstsLittlesPoetry IsArt IsDrugKnowsWritingLyingMirrorsOpiumSpeakWorldBehinds

Famous Jean Cocteau Quotes

“I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.”

IfsWantFirstsKindChildrenI CanLightAgeSoundSpaceCenturyReaderCostSafeChaosOneselfExcuseLoyaltyDietsInsultHostGlancesAlasWombCosmeticsAsylumsEnchantmentDividingSafe And Sound
Author:Jean Cocteau
Create image

“If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”

IfsFirstsHas BeensCertainHouseHoursBehindsHabitDrugAddictionGhostDespiteSmokingOrganismsAddictDiscomfortIntangibleOpiumSmoking CigarsFunny SmokingNo Smoking
Book:Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
Create image