Roland Barthes Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

5 Famous Quotes by Roland Barthes
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“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
Passion Quotes
“Literature is the question minus the answer.”
Literature Quotes
“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”
Sarcasm Quotes
“The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”
Sports Quotes