17 Quotes by Leon Bloy

The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

Bourgeois are by nature people who hate and destroy heavens. When they see a beautiful site, they have no more pressing dream than to cut the trees, dry up the springs, build streets, shops and urinals. They call this ceasing a business opportunity.

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

One had, in any case, a bag full of fruits that resemble stars, picked by the handful in the luminous forest ...

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

Chaque moderne porte en soi une petite Église infaillible dont il est le Christ et le Pontife et la grosse affaire est d'attirer le plus grand nombre possible de paroissiens.

Accordez-moi, Seigneur, ce vin qui est aussi nécessaire que votre précieux sang. Ce vin, sans quoi, tout ici bas est laid et maussade, ce vin qui rend la vie acceptable, et tolérables les foutus contemporains que vous m'avez données.

Whatever the circumstances may be, always put the Invisible before the visible, the Supernatural before the natural; if this rule is applied to all your actions, we know that you will be equipped with strength and bathed with deep joy.