Georges Bernanos QUOTES

21 " Ô maudite enfance, qui ne veut pas mourir ! "

22 " Notre vie est déjà pleine de morts, et pour chacun le plus mort des morts est le petit garçon qu'il fut.
Et pourtant l'heure venue, c'est lui qui reprendra sa place à la tête de ma vie, rassemblera mes pauvres années jusqu'à la dernière, et comme un jeune chef ses vétérans, ralliant la troupe en désordre entrera le premier dans la maison du Père. "

― Georges Bernanos , 7 romans de Georges Bernanos : Sous le soleil de Satan, L’Imposture, La Joie, Un crime, Journal d’un curé de campagne, Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette, Monsieur Ouine

23 " Le mensonge n'a jamais paru répréhensible à Mouchette, car mentir est le plus précieux, et sans doute l'unique privilège des misérables. "

― Georges Bernanos , Mouchette

24 " Lumea e plina de oameni care nu tainuiesc nimic pentru ca nu au nimic de ascuns. Nu sunt nimic. Pentru tineretea dvs. acesta este un adevar cam dur, sau care depaseste puterea dvs de intelegere! Nu sunteti mult diferit de imaginea pe care si-o fac despre dumneavoastra oamenii din Megere? Stiu ei ca ii dispretuiti? Ce ati castiga de altminteri dezvaluindu-va unor fiinte de alt soi? Ati ales tacerea, fie! Dar chiar si tacerea nu v-ar fi protejat eficient prea mult timp. Ar fi sosit si clipa in care ati fi fost nevoit sa purtati o masca, niste masti, o infinitate, o masca pentru fiecare zi a vietii dumneavoastra. Dura constrangere din care un om demn de acest nume isi face un joc pasionant pentru ca e dificil si periculos. Mai retineti cel putin aceasta. Fiinta vulgara nu reuseste sa se cunoasca decat prin intermediul judecatii celuilalt, celalalt e cel care ii da numele, numele sub care traieste si moare, ca o nava sub un pavilion strain. "

― Georges Bernanos , Un delitto

25 " A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. "

― Georges Bernanos

26 " God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? "

― Georges Bernanos , The Diary of a Country Priest

27 " But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me. "

― Georges Bernanos , The Diary of a Country Priest

28 " It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words. "

― Georges Bernanos , The Diary of a Country Priest

29 " When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears... "

― Georges Bernanos , The Diary of a Country Priest

30 " Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits. "

― Georges Bernanos , The Diary of a Country Priest

31 " On ne comprends rien à la civilisation moderne, si l'on n'admet pas d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure. "

― Georges Bernanos

32 " How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity—as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ. "

― Georges Bernanos

33 " The horrors that we have seen, the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable men are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile men. —George Bernanos "

― Georges Bernanos

34 " Do you think chance is really just the logic of God? "

― Georges Bernanos

35 " Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling. "

― Georges Bernanos , The Diary of a Country Priest

36 " There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible. "

― Georges Bernanos

37 " Je crois, je suis sûr que beaucoup d’hommes n’engagent jamais leur être, leur sincérité profonde. Ils vivent à la surface d’eux-mêmes, et le sol humain est si riche que cette mince couche superficielle suffit pour une maigre moisson, qui donne l’illusion d’une véritable destinée. "

― Georges Bernanos , The Diary of a Country Priest

38 " For those who have the habit of prayer, thought is too often a mere alibi, a sly way of deciding to do what one wants to do. Reason will always obscure what we wish to keep in the shadows. A worldling can think out the pros and cons and sum up his chances. No doubt. But what are our chances worth? We who have admitted once and for all into each moment of our puny lives the terrifying presence of God?...What is the use of working out chances? There are no chances against God. "

― Georges Bernanos , The Diary of a Country Priest

39 " On ne comprend absolument rien à la civilisation moderne si l'on n'admet pas tout d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure. "

― Georges Bernanos , La France contre les robots

40 " Tiens, une ville qu'on traverse la nuit, et tout à coup tu dépasses la dernière maison, tu retombes dans le silence, comme dans le vide. "

― Georges Bernanos , Un mauvais rêve

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