Francois Mauriac Men Quotations

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it were, Godlike, but regardless of the strength he derives from it, his free will remains. We are always free to disown this immense grace, to abuse it. The Greatest Love may be betrayed. Fed on the Living Bread, we nevertheless conceal a part of ourselves which longs for swine's food.