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Top 25 François Mauriac Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.”

2. “Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”

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

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “I love Germany so much I’m glad there are two of them.”

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

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “We know well only what we are deprived of.”

5. “We know well only what we are deprived of.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.”

6. “What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”

7. “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “A man’s passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.”

9. “A man’s passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.”

10. “That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man’s ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.”

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

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.”

12. “Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.”

13. “God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.”

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

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.”

15. “There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.”

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

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.”

17. “Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.”

— François Mauriac

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

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

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.”

19. “The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop.”

20. “I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.”

21. “If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.”

22. “Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.”

23. “Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.”

24. “The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.”

25. “The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.”

26. “A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.”

27. “A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.”

28. “This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.”

— François Mauriac

François Mauriac Quote: “The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.”

29. “The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.”

— François Mauriac

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