Best Georges Bernanos Quotes
- Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that… Conditions
- The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. Any
- Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to… All
- You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world. Busy
- Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward. Afterward
- When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem… All
- Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer. All
- The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions. Calculations
- Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. Creep
- God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? All
- Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to… Darkness
- The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. Inspirational
- Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward. Afterward
- The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. Ask
- Hell, madam, is to love no longer. Death