Zitate von Jean Genet

„Das einzige Mittel, dem Entsetzen zu entgehen, besteht darin, sich dem Entsetzen zu überlassen.“

—  Jean Genet

„Als ich das erstemal schrieb, verspürte ich das erstemal den Geschmack der Freiheit.“

—  Jean Genet

„I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.“

—  Jean Genet, buch The Thief's Journal

„My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.“

—  Jean Genet, buch Our Lady of the Flowers

„If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.“

—  Jean Genet, The Balcony

„Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.“

—  Jean Genet

„A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.“

—  Jean Genet

„To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.“

—  Jean Genet, buch The Thief's Journal

„Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.“

—  Jean Genet

„They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.“

—  Jean Genet, buch Our Lady of the Flowers

„Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.“

—  Jean Genet, buch The Thief's Journal

„Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!“

—  Jean Genet, buch Querelle of Brest

„Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.“

—  Jean Genet, buch Our Lady of the Flowers

„Betrayal is beautiful.“

—  Jean Genet, buch The Thief's Journal

„Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.“

—  Jean Genet, buch The Thief's Journal

„When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.“

—  Jean Genet

„Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.“

—  Jean Genet, buch Querelle of Brest

„I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.“

—  Jean Genet

„The pimp has a grin, never a smile.“

—  Jean Genet, The Balcony