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Top 30 Louis Aragon Quotes (2025 Update)

Louis Aragon Quote: “I have no friends, there are only people I love.”

1. “I have no friends, there are only people I love.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.”

2. “Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”

3. “Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.”

4. “Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.”

5. “Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Elle avait ce gout de l’absolu, rien n’etait jamais assez, rien n’etait quelque chose. Quiconque a ce gout de l’absolu, renonce par la meme au bonheur.”

6. “Elle avait ce gout de l’absolu, rien n’etait jamais assez, rien n’etait quelque chose. Quiconque a ce gout de l’absolu, renonce par la meme au bonheur.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.”

7. “Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.”

8. “There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Error is certainty’s constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.”

9. “Error is certainty’s constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to have perished.”

10. “That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to have perished.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.”

11. “O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Language was not given to man: he seized it.”

12. “Language was not given to man: he seized it.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.”

13. “There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Tout ce qui fut sera pour peu qu’on s’en souvienne.”

14. “Tout ce qui fut sera pour peu qu’on s’en souvienne.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”

15. “We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.”

16. “Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.”

17. “Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”

18. “Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.”

19. “It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia’s useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.”

20. “What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia’s useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...”

21. “I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.”

22. “The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity...”

23. “Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity...”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “How a life exiles itself! The years slip by and leave man, after so many peregrinations and meta-morphoses, absolutely akin himself, for the sake of a little moral simile, to a circumstance which results in his remembering.”

24. “How a life exiles itself! The years slip by and leave man, after so many peregrinations and meta-morphoses, absolutely akin himself, for the sake of a little moral simile, to a circumstance which results in his remembering.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “No further use now for this language, this learning, this whole education through which I was taught to exert myself at the heart of the world. Mirage or mirror, a great enchantment glows in this darkness and leans against the door-jam of ravages in the classic pose assumed by death immediately after shedding her shroud. O my image of bone, here I am: let everything finally decompose in the palace of illusions and silence.”

25. “No further use now for this language, this learning, this whole education through which I was taught to exert myself at the heart of the world. Mirage or mirror, a great enchantment glows in this darkness and leans against the door-jam of ravages in the classic pose assumed by death immediately after shedding her shroud. O my image of bone, here I am: let everything finally decompose in the palace of illusions and silence.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.”

26. “The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “As if one could do what one wanted with one’s own body!”

27. “As if one could do what one wanted with one’s own body!”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.”

28. “And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.”

29. “The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “I have never sought out anything but scandal, and I cultivate it for its own sake.”

30. “I have never sought out anything but scandal, and I cultivate it for its own sake.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Climb down into your idea, inhabit your idea, well-digger hanging from your rope. At first it was only an outline, a halo, and by now it has not got very far, and everywhere I touch upon things which are not that idea of yours, I touch that idea through everything that refutes it, the world expires along its shores. My idea, my idea clings to countless bonds. A long story and I am moved to pity by its scarred form, I kiss the imperfections of its foot.”

31. “Climb down into your idea, inhabit your idea, well-digger hanging from your rope. At first it was only an outline, a halo, and by now it has not got very far, and everywhere I touch upon things which are not that idea of yours, I touch that idea through everything that refutes it, the world expires along its shores. My idea, my idea clings to countless bonds. A long story and I am moved to pity by its scarred form, I kiss the imperfections of its foot.”

— Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Quote: “Yes, I have forgotten your eyes so much so that seeing them again leaves me indifferent on that point. Indifferent... oh no, words no more express love than they do the death of love.”

32. “Yes, I have forgotten your eyes so much so that seeing them again leaves me indifferent on that point. Indifferent... oh no, words no more express love than they do the death of love.”

— Louis Aragon

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