I believe in a lofty form of poetry, in the work in which beauty will be mingled with beliefs.
Henri Barbusse Quotes
1873–1935 France
Henri Barbusse (17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, journalist and member of the French Communist Party.
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124 quotes
Light (1919)
The dead are specters of the living, but the living are specters of the dead.
Light (1919)
That society is badly arranged which forces nearly all women to be servants.
Light (1919)
Only the idolatrous and the weak have need of illusion as of a remedy.
Light (1919)
It is not yet hostility around me; but it is already a rupture.
Light (1919)
The end of the tempest and the long trouble is not yet.
Under Fire (1916)
We may no longer be able to count; but Fate will count.
Light (1919)
I have only one recourse, to remember and to believe.
The Inferno (1917)
You can form no idea of the beauty that is possible!
Light (1919)
Under Fire (1916)
It is not enough to speak; you must know words.
Light (1919)
I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory.
Light (1919)
Light (1919)
We do not die. Each human being is alone in the world.
The Inferno (1917)
Light (1919)
What I have seen is going to disappear, since I shall do nothing with it.
The Inferno (1917)
I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.
The Inferno (1917)
The Inferno (1917)
Under Fire (1916)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henri Barbusse (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.