10 Jean Cocteau Quotes on Time

Jean Cocteau quotes on time

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

16. The trouble about the Academie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed.

18. What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.

21. Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

22. A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

24. You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

33. When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

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.

88. Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.