Georges Bernanos

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

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Hell madame is to love no longer.

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.

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

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery, the feeling that she was about to learn what she had been unable to learn from her brief experience of love. What she thought about death was childish, but what could never have touched her in the past now filled her with poignant tenderness, as sometimes a familiar face we see suddenly with the eyes of love makes us aware that it has been dearer to us than life itself for longer than we have ever realized.