Quotes by Francois Mauriac

About Francois Mauriac:

François Charles Mauriac was a French author, member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.
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What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do, of utter futility? No? Doesn't it occur to you that the sort of life people like us lead is remarkably like death?

Francois Mauriac

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!

Francois Mauriac

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

Francois Mauriac

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

Francois Mauriac

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.

Francois Mauriac

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry...

Francois Mauriac

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an unknown world of goodness. Often Isa had said to me: 'You, who see nothing but evil.... You, who see evil everywhere....' It was true, and it ...

Francois Mauriac

No man can bear a child's cross.

Francois Mauriac

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

Francois Mauriac

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Francois Mauriac

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

Francois Mauriac

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Francois Mauriac

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Francois Mauriac

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

Francois Mauriac

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

Francois Mauriac

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

Francois Mauriac

Author Bio

  • NameFrancois Mauriac
  • DescriptionFrench author
  • BornOctober 11, 1885
  • DiedSeptember 1, 1970
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Poet; Novelist; Playwright
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Grand Cross Of The Legion Of Honour; Grand Prix Du Roman De L'Académie Française