Bloy's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Nothing is original. It says it right there in the Bible. Ecclesiastes:
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of previous ideas.

Austin Kleon

#4. India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

Jairam Ramesh

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

Leon Bloy

#6. Greed:Your own lies make you sick.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#7. I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend.

Rick Bragg

#8. I wasn't athletic and had no desire to work out, so I watched what I ate. Correction: I ate what I wanted and felt guilty about it later.

Megan Miranda

#9. I don't think of you as perfect.
"Oh ... ok." My eyelashes blinked in rapid succession and my brain started compiling the list of
all my imperfections, "It's because of my height? My seepage of trivial facts? My granny panties-

Penny Reid

#10. 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

#11. He was one of the vast numbers of people who cannot imagine themselves into the class or gender, least of all the emotions, of a different person. That is lack of vision or sensitivity, even compassion, but it is not stupidity.

Anne Perry

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

Leon Bloy

#13. Quality depends on kindness. Beauty depends on simplicity. Joy depends on generosity.

Debasish Mridha

#14. A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

Edward Tufte

#15. I like the authentic object, and I have no problem paying sixty dollars for a T-shirt if it fits me really well and it's really well made. I like unassuming clothes.

Micah Lexier

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

Leon Bloy

#17. Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

Rachel Sklar

#18. Girls who like each other have a different energy. More intense. Furtive. They're part of a secret world. They speak in code, like spies. Everything has a hidden meaning.

Leah Reader

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

Leon Bloy

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

Leon Bloy

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

Leon Bloy

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

Leon Bloy

#23. Jane had it right: He'd traded his bravery for his ambition. And if he didn't make this right - if he didn't learn to suppress that memory of pain and reach in and grab hold of the coals in front of him, he'd be locked up for life in the chains of his own silence.

Courtney Milan

#24. 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

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

Leon Bloy

#26. As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.

Jeannette Walls

#27. 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

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

Leon Bloy