8 Jean Cocteau Quotes on Life

Jean Cocteau quotes on life

1. I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

6. True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

9. The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

36. One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

50. Life is a horizontal fall.

51. Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

58. Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

62. One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.