Autobiography Quote by Georges Bernanos

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave…

— Georges Bernanos

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your…

— Georges Bernanos

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

— Georges Bernanos

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

— Georges Bernanos

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to…

— Georges Bernanos

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

— Georges Bernanos

Hell is not to love anymore.

— Georges Bernanos

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

— Georges Bernanos

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

— Georges Bernanos

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it…

— Georges Bernanos

Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is…

— Georges Bernanos

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined…

— Georges Bernanos