Henry de Montherlant Quotes

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness.

Great ideas are not charitable.

Human beings do not do all evil of which they are capable.

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.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Human beings do not do all evil of which they are capable.

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.