Quotes from Leon Bloy

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

There is no human being on earth who is capable of declaring who he is, with certainty. No one knows what he has come to this world to do, to what his acts, feelings, ideas correspond, or what his real name is, his imperishable Name in the registry of Light.

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit.

Chaque moderne porte en soi une petite Église infaillible dont il est le Christ et le Pontife et la grosse affaire est d'attirer le plus grand nombre possible de paroissiens.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be." Leon Bloy

Bourgeois are by nature people who hate and destroy heavens. When they see a beautiful site, they have no more pressing dream than to cut the trees, dry up the springs, build streets, shops and urinals. They call this ceasing a business opportunity.

I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist's imagination

Whatever the circumstances may be, always put the Invisible before the visible, the Supernatural before the natural; if this rule is applied to all your actions, we know that you will be equipped with strength and bathed with deep joy.

Somos todos miseráveis e devastados, mas poucos homens são capazes de encarar o próprio abismo.

insan öldü?ünde uzunca bir süre için ölür-

Soyez un ivrogne de magnificences et de sublimités morales et titubez sur le genre humain

Une minute vient de s'écouler. Cela fait environ cent morts et cent nouveau-nés de plus. Une centaine de vagissements et une centaine de derniers soupirs. Le calcul est fait depuis longtemps. Le compte est exact. C'est la balance du grouillement de l'humanité. Dans une heure, il y aura six mille cadavres sous votre lit et six mille petits enfants, tout autour de vous, pleureront par lierre ou dans des berceaux.

When did he start to stroke and compassionate?

Les bêtes sont ce que l'homme a le plus méconnu et le plus opprimé

Cette année, pareille à tant d'autres, n'avait pas été l'année de la Fin du monde et nul ne songeait à s'en étonner.

Il appartenait sans aucun doute à cette lignée idéales de chenapans que la Providence institua, dès l'origine, pour l'équilibre des Séraphins.

El que no reza a Dios, reza al diablo

Dieu n'aurait pas été digne de créer le monde, s'il avait oublié dans le néant l'immense Racaille qui devait un jour le crucifier.