Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
More Quotes from Georges Duhamel:
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.Georges Duhamel
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
Georges Duhamel
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
Georges Duhamel
We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.
Georges Duhamel
There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.
Georges Duhamel
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Life Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Suffering QuotesBased on Keywords: intoxication, roused
For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
Arthur Capper
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
Willa Ford