Georges Duhamel Quotes

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.