“If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.”
Source: La joie (Joy) 1929, p.42
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Georges Bernanos46
French writer 1888–1948Related quotes
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Although it appears on U.S. postage featuring Angelou, this is actually a variant quote from the work of poet Joan Walsh Anglund. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Postal Service releases Maya Angelou stamp with quote from another author, Josh Hicks, 7 April 2015, Washington Post, 9 April 2015 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/04/07/postal-serves-releases-maya-angelou-stamp-with-quote-from-another-author/,
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
James Cameron (journalist) (1911–1985) British journalist
Cameron Country, broadcast on BBC TV, July 12, 1969.
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
“I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Frank Wilczek (1951) physicist
Quoted in an article, "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?" http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/why_is_there_something_rather_than_nothing, by Victor Stenger (June 2006).