Henry de Montherlant Quotes

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

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

The United States is evil.

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.