Suffering Quotes by Léon Bloy

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

— Leon Bloy

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

— Leon Bloy

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

— Leon Bloy

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

— Leon Bloy

“Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit.”

— Léon Bloy

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory…

— Leon Bloy

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

— Leon Bloy

“I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist’s imagination”

— Léon Bloy

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

— Leon Bloy

“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.”

— Leon Bloy

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

— Leon Bloy

“One had, in any case, a bag full of fruits that resemble stars, picked by the handful in the luminous forest ...”

— Léon Bloy