Quotes by : Georges Bernanos

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always....

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the....

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound....

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only....

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

We priests are sneered at and always shall be—the accusation is such an easy one—as deeply envious,....

Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which....

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.