Frases de Georges Bernanos

„Es la fiebre de la juventud lo que mantiene al resto del mundo a la temperatura normal.“

—  Georges Bernanos

„El hombre de antaño no se parecía al de hoy. Nunca hubiese aquél formado parte de este rebaño que las democracias plutocráticas, marxistas o racistas alimentan para la fábrica y el osario.“

—  Georges Bernanos, libro La France contre les robots

La France contre les robots.

„La esperanza es un riesgo que hay que correr“

—  Georges Bernanos

„Es el temor perpetuo de miedo, el miedo del miedo, el que da forma a la cara de un hombre valiente.“

—  Georges Bernanos

„¿Quién es usted para condenar el pecado de otro? El que condena el pecado se convierte en parte de él, lo abraza.“

—  Georges Bernanos

„La cólera de los imbéciles devasta hoy la tierra.“

—  Georges Bernanos

„El honor de un pueblo pertenece a los muertos, los que viven sólo lo usufructúan“

—  Georges Bernanos

„El verdadero odio es el desinterés, y el asesinato perfecto es el olvido.“

—  Georges Bernanos

„Nuestros cálculos más peligrosos son aquellos que llamamos ilusiones“

—  Georges Bernanos

„Pequeñas cosas parecen nada, pero dan la paz, como las praderas de flores que parecen poco, pero todas juntas llenan el aire de perfume.“

—  Georges Bernanos

„Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.“

—  Georges Bernanos, libro Mouchette

Fuente: Mouchette

„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

„Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.“

—  Georges Bernanos, libro The Diary of a Country Priest

The Diary of a Country Priest

„More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.“

—  Georges Bernanos

Fuente: L'imposture (The Impostor), 1927, p.153

„If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.“

—  Georges Bernanos

Fuente: La joie (Joy) 1929, p.42

„Appearances are nothing…. And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.“

—  Georges Bernanos

Abbé Cénabre to Chantal, p. 212
La joie (Joy) 1929

„She [Chantal] did not understand him [Fiodor]. She never could and never would understand him, being as invulnerable in her truthfulness as he in his falseness. And yet, she hated him unconsciously with a jealous hatred — for what other name, alas, could be given to that revolt of her pure conscience, so well armed and, at the same time, so defenceless? She hated him instinctively as though he already possessed the incomparable secret with which to menace her, to menace God Himself.“

—  Georges Bernanos

Fuente: La joie (Joy) 1929, pp.48–49

„[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred.“

—  Georges Bernanos

Fuente: L'imposture (The Impostor), 1927, p.156

„[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.“

—  Georges Bernanos

Chantal to Dr. La Pérouse, p. 188
La joie (Joy) 1929