Jean Cocteau Life Quotations

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie