17 Quotes by Leon Bloy

I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist’s imagination

Soyez un ivrogne de magnificences et de sublimités morales et titubez sur le genre humain

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.