89 Quotes by Louis de Bernières

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

What keeps me going is my children.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.