30 Quotes by Henry de Montherlant

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

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

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

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

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

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

Great ideas are not charitable.

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

One puts into one’s art what one has not been capable of putting into one’s existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.