Henry De Montherlant Quotes & Sayings

I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself. — Henry De Montherlant

Great ideas are not charitable. — Henry De Montherlant

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. — Henry De Montherlant

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

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion. — Henry De Montherlant

Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is so much pleasure in loving that one gladly sacrifices something for its sake. Any one who loves me takes away all my freedom. Anyone who admires me (as a writer) threatens to take it away from me. I even fear those who understand me, which is why I spend so much time covering my tracks - both in my private life and in the persona I express through my books. What would have delighted me, had I loved god, is the thought that god gives nothing in return. — Henry De Montherlant

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

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness — Henry De Montherlant

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page. — Henry De Montherlant

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word. — Henry De Montherlant

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred. — Henry De Montherlant

Most people do not read; those who read do not understand; those who understand forget. — Henry De Montherlant

We like someone because. We love someone although. — Henry De Montherlant

A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity. — Henry De Montherlant

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world. — Henry De Montherlant

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

The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world. — Henry De Montherlant

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

The United States is evil. — Henry De Montherlant

To search for a solutions, knowing that the problem is insoluble; to serve, while smiling at what one serves; to subject oneself to an iron discipline, without end and without profit; to write, in the profound conviction that one's work has no importance; to know, to understand, and to tolerate, while constantly bearing in mind the painful uselessness of being right ... — Henry De Montherlant

Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone. — Henry De Montherlant

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind. — Henry De Montherlant

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her. — Henry De Montherlant