Georges Bernanos Quotes
Top 46 wise famous quotes and sayings by Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.
I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
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 it.
I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
O miracle - thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
Appearances are nothing ... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.