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

„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

Quelle: 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

Quelle: 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

The Thief's Journal (1949)

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

—  Jean Genet, buch The Thief's Journal

Quelle: The Thief's Journal

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

—  Jean Genet

Quelle: Prisoner of Love

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

—  Jean Genet, buch Our Lady of the Flowers

Quelle: 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

Quelle: The Thief's Journal

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

—  Jean Genet, buch Querelle of Brest

Quelle: 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

Quelle: Our Lady of the Flowers

„Betrayal is beautiful.“

—  Jean Genet, buch The Thief's Journal

Quelle: 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

Quelle: 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

Quelle: Miracle of the Rose

„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

Quelle: 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

Quelle: The Balcony