Henry de Montherlant

... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one…

— Henry de Montherlant

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy…

— Henry de Montherlant

“Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is…

— Henry de Montherlant

The United States is evil.

— Henry de Montherlant

A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe…

— Henry de Montherlant

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

— Henry de Montherlant

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

— Henry de Montherlant

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

— Henry de Montherlant

“Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.”

— Henry de Montherlant

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men…

— Henry de Montherlant

The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world.

— Henry de Montherlant

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit,…

— Henry de Montherlant

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

— Henry de Montherlant

“To search for a solutions, knowing that the problem is insoluble; to serve, while smiling at what one serves; to subject oneself…

— Henry de Montherlant

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

— Henry de Montherlant

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

— Henry de Montherlant

“I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.”

— Henry de Montherlant

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

— Henry de Montherlant

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming…

— Henry de Montherlant

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

— Henry de Montherlant

We like someone because. We love someone although.

— Henry de Montherlant

Great ideas are not charitable.

— Henry de Montherlant

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad…

— Henry de Montherlant

“I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time…

— Henry de Montherlant