108 Quotes by Georges Bernanos

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.

I realize now that friendship can break out between two people, with that sudden violence which is only attributed to the revelation of love.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with t hat desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.

More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so

Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties anymore.