Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Raymond Radiguet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Raymond Radiguet.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Raymond Radiguet was a French novelist and poet whose two novels were noted for their explicit themes, and unique style and tone.

French - Novelist | June 18, 1903 - December 12, 1923

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In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is less like a thing that that which is closest to it. A man who had been near to death thinks how he knows death. When the day finally comes for him to meet it, he does not recognise it. 'This is not it,' he says, as he dies.

Raymond Radiguet

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.

Raymond Radiguet

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Raymond Radiguet

Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?

Raymond Radiguet

We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.

Raymond Radiguet

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

Raymond Radiguet