Quote by Georges Bernanos
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Do

When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, youre bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! – Georges Bernanos

Other quotes by Georges Bernanos

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I dont despise it. But it cant quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Kindness
Read Quote

What does the truth matter? Havent we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Deception/Lying
Read Quote

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Youth
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Belief
category

I believe in the sun even if it isnt shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. – Anon.

Category:
Belief

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Belief

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Belief

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. – Laurens van der Post

Category:
Belief

Random Quotes

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. – André Gide, Journals, 13 September 1938

Category:
War

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. – Linus Torvalds

Category:
Money

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world — mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. – R. D. Laing

Category:
Alienation

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: theres another dog. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Category:
Portraits