Léon Bloy

"Of the truths which embarrass him he thinks it better to remain unaware."

"One sees the worlds evil accurately only by exaggerating it."

"Tu seras invendable à perpétuité, lInvendable, dans tes livres aussi bien que dans ta personne, et ainsi se réalisera tout à fait la séparation, naturellement désirée par toi, davec les vendeurs et les gens à vendre."

"Ah! The happy ones of this world who are assured their daily bread—that is, all the things necessary to bodily life—and who, not wishing to know Jesus, have never for one single instant had the idea of suffering for their brothers, of sacrificing themselves for the wretched: ah! indeed! such people are assuredly well qualified to judge me and to reproach me for not having what the world calls dignity!"

"Unhappy writer, you had dreamt of winning souls and you have won nothing but ears!"

"The exercise of freedom consists in stripping oneself of ones own will."

"Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes."

"Instead of being a whited sepulchre like the Pharisees of all times, he was a charred blackened cathedral."

"His violence was the obverse of a charity lashed by incomparable storms, which had reached the end of its patience."

"Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig."

"It is the small flock of God. "Whoever receives in my name one of those little" said Jesus, "It is myself who receives." What thinks the one that sticks, that maims, or inflicts to their pure souls more black sorrow than death? (...) The curse of a crowd of children, is a cataclysm, a horror prodigy, a chain of dark mountains in the sky, with a cavalcade of thunder and lightning in their tops. It is the infinite of the cries of all deep, is a not know what highly powerful unforgiving and extinguishing any hope of forgiveness."

"There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint."