Quotes About Georges Bernanos

Pride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself.

Vice is perhaps less dangerous to us than a certain staleness. There is softening of the brain. Softening of the heart is worse.

you find them wreathed in knowing deprecating smiles; they beg you to spare them.

The brutality of his voice reassured Mouchette more than any word of friendship would. She could only defend herself by immobility and silence.

hunger now seemed a prolongation of physical well-being, a delicious drowsiness.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.