Georges Duhamel Quotes
- We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
- I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
- I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.
- When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
- The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he…
- The desire for order is the only order in the world.
- To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.
- In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
- No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.
- There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.
- Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than…
- The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to…
- We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the…
- It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
- Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
- Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them…
- It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.