Quotes by : Pascal Mercier

I revere the word of God for I love its poetic force. I loathe the word of God for I hate its cruelty.....

It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.

...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely....

To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public....

How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of....

Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads.....

Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not....

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.