Francois Mauriac: Quotes about love

“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”

Francois Mauriac

For Friend , Love , Friendship

“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”

Francois Mauriac

love , Romantic , Love

“What makes a poet is, surely, the love of these things, a desperate search for the tiny ray of sunshine which used to flicker on the floor of a child’s bedroom.”

Francois Mauriac book Questions of Precedence

Ce qui fait le poète, n'est-ce pas l'amour, la recherche désespérée du moindre rayon de soleil d'autrefois jouant sur le parquet d'une chambre d'enfant?
Préséances (1921), cited from Oeuvres romanesques, vol.1 (Paris: Flammarion, 1965) p. 301; Gerard Hopkins (trans.) Questions of Precedence (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958) p. 46.

Love , Search

“I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.”

Francois Mauriac

J’aime tellement l’Allemagne que je suis heureux qu’il y en ait deux.
As quoted in The Rough Guide to Germany (2004) by Gordon McLachlan, p. vii.

Love

“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.”

Francois Mauriac

Housing , Swine , Food , Love

“Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.”

Francois Mauriac

Love , Making love

“We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.”