Henry de Montherlant famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Writing #White #Ink
I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Ocean #Ideas #Made
We like someone because. We love someone although.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Love
Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Atheism #Disease #Mankind
It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Creativity #Unhappy #World
It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Missing
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Views #Tasks #May
Great ideas are not charitable.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Ideas #Charitable #Great Idea
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Men #Triumph #World
One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Art #Unhappy #World
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Courage #Affection #Habit
We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Confusion #Understood
There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Heart #Soul #Flesh
It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Chance #Individual #Various

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