Previous Quote

Georges Bernanos Quotes

Next Quote
Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively. - Quote by Georges Bernanos

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

Georges Bernanos
Copy LinkCopy Link
Copy QuoteCopy Quote
Copy ImageCopy Image
Download Image of QuoteDownload Image

About The Quote

Related Authors

Related Topics

More Quotes From Georges Bernanos

Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
Georges Bernanos
Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
Georges Bernanos
Hope is a risk that must be run.
Georges Bernanos
Hell madame is to love no longer.
Georges Bernanos
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.
Georges Bernanos
Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.
Georges Bernanos
I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.
Georges Bernanos
We priests are sneered at and always shall be—the accusation is such an easy one—as deeply envious, hypocritical haters of virility. Yet whosoever has experienced sin must know that lust, with its parasitic growth, is for ever threatening to stifle virility as well as intelligence. Impotent to create, it can only contaminate in the germ the frail promise of humanity; it is probably at the very source, the primal cause of all human blemishes; and when amid the windings of this huge jungle whose paths are unknown, we encounter Lust, just as she is, as she emerged forth from the hands of the Master of Prodigies, the cry from our hearts is not only terror but imprecation: 'You, you alone have set death loose upon the world!
Georges Bernanos
Report Quote Report Quote Report Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote