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Roman Payne Quotes | Quotes said by Roman Payne

  • Roman Payne Quote #1

    ...You see I believe in that stuff to: yoga and mystical powers. I once knew a man who could kill himself on command. Can you believe that? . . . Why do you laugh? . . . Believe it! By will of his own mind, he could make his heart stop beating for good' My neighbor poised and looked seriously at me, searching in my eyes. '...You laugh!' he repeated once more… 'You laugh, but he was a master at it! He could commit suicide at his own will!'
    Indeed, hearty laughter streamed through my nose. 'Could he do it perpetually?' I asked.
    'Perpetually...?' My neighbor rubbed his waxy chin.
    'I mean, is he still able to do it?'
    'I’m not sure I understand.'
    'Well? Then is he dead…?!'
    My neighbor's puzzled face slowly began to transform into a look of realization. 'But sir,' he said, 'Of course he’s dead! I mean to say... this man could kill himself on command, you see. And you don’t come back from the dead!'
    The two of us found ourselves crossing to the door so I could let my visitor out. I slapped him with friendliness on the shoulder.
    'No, you don’t come back from the dead,' I agreed.

  • Roman Payne Quote #2

    [As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

  • Roman Payne Quote #3

    88.People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.

  • Roman Payne Quote #4

    A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?

  • Roman Payne Quote #5

    A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

  • Roman Payne Quote #6

    A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls.

  • Roman Payne Quote #7

    A girl without braids
    is like a city without bridges.

  • Roman Payne Quote #8

    A glorious death would be in my
    final breath to take before I die, to hear
    one final time on my belovèd's mouth
    the sound of her eternal sigh.

  • Roman Payne Quote #9

    A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

  • Roman Payne Quote #10

    A tired man lay down his head
    in a dusty room so dim,
    and for so long his wife did shake
    and yell to waken him.

    Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stir
    of sandy, red bullfights,
    of powder-blasts in the air
    and carnival delights.

    Yet still his wife was in despair
    in a dusty room so dim,
    for she knew death was a whore
    not far from tempting him.

  • Roman Payne Quote #11

    A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

  • Roman Payne Quote #12

    After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head—for creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks.

  • Roman Payne Quote #13

    Ah, youth!
    It was a beautiful night...
    The moon was out of orbit.
    The stars were awry.
    But everything else was exactly
    as it should have been.

  • Roman Payne Quote #14

    Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

  • Roman Payne Quote #15

    Alexander the Great slept with
    'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
    Though I’ve never led an army,
    I am a wanderer. I cradle
    'The Odyssey' nights while the
    moon is waning, as if it were
    the sweet body of a woman.

  • Roman Payne Quote #16

    All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

  • Roman Payne Quote #17

    All I want in this life are three...
    a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,
    a breath of opium,
    and thee.

  • Roman Payne Quote #18

    All that I desire in life are three...
    A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,
    A puff of opium,
    And thee.

  • Roman Payne Quote #19

    Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.

  • Roman Payne Quote #20

    Analogies are like lies.

  • Roman Payne Quote #21

    Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.

  • Roman Payne Quote #22

    As for girls, they must risk everything for freedom, and give everything for passion... loving everything that their hearts and their bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering everything she has to create a life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in her imagination.

  • Roman Payne Quote #23

    As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life — especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is.

  • Roman Payne Quote #24

    As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering everything she has to create a life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in her imagination.

  • Roman Payne Quote #25

    As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life — especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is.

    As for us girls, we must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that our hearts and our bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering everything she has to create a life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in her imagination.

  • Roman Payne Quote #26

    As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life — especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is.

    As for girls, they should risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that their hearts and their bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering everything she has to create a life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in her imagination.

  • Roman Payne Quote #27

    As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, we must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for us... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life — especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is.

  • Roman Payne Quote #28

    Be there a picnic for the devil,
    an orgy for the satyr,
    and a wedding for the bride.

  • Roman Payne Quote #29

    Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.

  • Roman Payne Quote #30

    Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts… for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles… these things fill men’s hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.

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