Bloy Quotes

#1. St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.

Peter Kreeft

#2. As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don't do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires ... And I think of Bloy's words: there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable.

Roland Barthes

#3. Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.

Michel Houellebecq

#4. The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

Leon Bloy

#5. never judge a book by its cover,whats in it is a way of life.

Maceo Mays

#6. The World is full of pain,suffering and many situations we never want to face. Truth is we must overcome it all to move on to better,brighter days in our lives.Overcoming is the only way we can.

Timothy Pina

#7. Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
" ... unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."

Gemma Hussey

#8. The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

Leon Bloy

#9. Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

Leon Bloy

#10. To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

Alastair Reynolds

#11. Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Leon Bloy

#12. I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

W.C. Fields

#13. I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Leon Bloy

#14. There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

Leon Bloy

#15. Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit.

Leon Bloy

#16. Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

Leon Bloy

#17. Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

Leon Bloy

#18. There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

Leon Bloy

#19. The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone.

Aziz Ansari

#20. There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Leon Bloy