58 Quotes by Francois Mauriac

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal is the Eternal, the last word for each one of us belongs to Him. This is what I should have told this Jewish child. But I could only embrace him weeping.

No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.