Louis De Bernieres Quotes

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

What keeps me going is my children.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

Money has no religion except itself.

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.