Georges Bernanos Famous Quotes



"Hell, Madame, is to love no longer."

"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around."

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.


Georges Bernanos Quotations






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"Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony."
Andrew Schneider

"We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams."
Kahlil Gibran

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
Homer

"Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art."
Polly Whitney

"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."
Miguel de Cervantes

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile

Never give advice in a crowd.
Arab Proverb

"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."
Albert Camus

"Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains."
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno