Henri Barbusse Quotes

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

I see too deep and too much.

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.

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

People are machines of forgetfulness

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

...patriotism has become a narrow offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain war and exhaust the world