124 quotes
In life's tragedy, separation is the only thing one sees.
The Inferno (1917)
Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
Under Fire (1916)
Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!
Light (1919)
The so-called inseparable cohesions of national interests vanish away as soon as you draw near to examine them. There are individual interests and a general interest, those two only.
Light (1919)
Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.
Light (1919)
The immense mourning of human hearts appears to us. We dare not name it yet; but we dare not let it not appear in all that we say.
Light (1919)
Our heart is only made for one heart at a time.
Light (1919)
We're forgetting-machines. Men are things that think a little but chiefly forget. That's what we are.
Under Fire (1916)
There must be justice, not charity.
Light (1919)
Tradition reigns, the gospel of the blind adoration of what was and what is — God without a head.
Light (1919)
No, you do not elevate aberration into an ideal, and illusion is always a stain, whatever the name you lend it.
Light (1919)
Men have gone towards each other because of that ray of light which each of them contains; and light resembles light.
Light (1919)
War kills wealth as it does men; it goes away in ruins and smoke, and one cannot fabricate gold any more than soldiers.
Light (1919)
I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope.
Light (1919)
Commonplace life has shipwrecks worse than in Shakespearean dramas.
Light (1919)
One after another, sundry women have occupied my life.
Light (1919)
I am looking for the happiness which lives.
Light (1919)
All we can see is only a speck. You've got to remember that this morning there's three thousand kilometers of equal evils, or nearly equal, or worse.
Under Fire (1916)
Will the great poet come who shall settle the boundaries of belief and render it eternal, the poet who will be, not a fool, not an ignorant orator, but a wise man, the great inexorable poet?
The Inferno (1917)
The idea of motherland is not a false idea, but it is a little idea, and one which must remain little.
Light (1919)