Quotes by : Jean Cocteau

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium....

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous,....

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion.

One sits down first one thinks afterwards.