Roland Barthes Quotes.

1. "Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering."
- Quote by Roland Barthes

2. "To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?"
- Quote by Roland Barthes

3. "...language is never innocent."
- Quote by Roland Barthes

4. "The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
- Quote by Roland Barthes

5. "Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance."
- Quote by Roland Barthes

6. "In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe."
- Quote by Roland Barthes

7. "I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance..."
- Quote by Roland Barthes

8. "Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin."
- Quote by Roland Barthes

9. "Am I in love? - Yes, since I'm waiting." The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits."
- Quote by Roland Barthes

10. "All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern."
- Quote by Roland Barthes