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Top 25 Henri Barbusse Quotes (2025 Update)

Henri Barbusse Quote: “I keep remembering – I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.”

1. “I keep remembering – I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “People are machines of forgetfulness.”

2. “People are machines of forgetfulness.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.”

3. “I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.”

4. “Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.”

5. “It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “Two armies at death-grips – that is one great army committing suicide.”

6. “Two armies at death-grips – that is one great army committing suicide.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “I see too deep and too much.”

7. “I see too deep and too much.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!”

8. “Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world’s disease.”

9. “Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world’s disease.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.”

10. “There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “Happiness needs unhappiness. Joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. It is thanks to the shadow that we exist. We must not dream of an absurd abstraction. We must guard the bond that links us to blood and earth.”

11. “Happiness needs unhappiness. Joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. It is thanks to the shadow that we exist. We must not dream of an absurd abstraction. We must guard the bond that links us to blood and earth.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.”

12. “We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “En la luz, la apariencia; en la sombra, nosotros. La sombra es la realidad de milagro que traduce lo invisible.”

13. “En la luz, la apariencia; en la sombra, nosotros. La sombra es la realidad de milagro que traduce lo invisible.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “I had no children and shall have none. There are moments when this troubles me, when I reflect that with me a line will end which has lasted since the beginning of humanity.”

14. “I had no children and shall have none. There are moments when this troubles me, when I reflect that with me a line will end which has lasted since the beginning of humanity.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “And night came, as every night will come, until the last one, which will be too vast.”

15. “And night came, as every night will come, until the last one, which will be too vast.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr – smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.”

16. “The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr – smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism.”

17. “The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “Her beauty saddened me.”

18. “Her beauty saddened me.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “It is not a woman I want – it is all women.”

19. “It is not a woman I want – it is all women.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death.”

20. “Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.”

21. “At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “I saw nothing more now than the pallor of my face, with deep orbits, buried in the twilight, and my mouth filled with a silence which gently but surely stifles and destroys.”

22. “I saw nothing more now than the pallor of my face, with deep orbits, buried in the twilight, and my mouth filled with a silence which gently but surely stifles and destroys.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “But now I was tired of having desired too much. I suddenly felt old. I should never recover from the wound in my breast. The dream of peace that I had had a moment before attracted and tempted me only because it was far away. Had I realised it, I should simply have dreamed another dream.”

23. “But now I was tired of having desired too much. I suddenly felt old. I should never recover from the wound in my breast. The dream of peace that I had had a moment before attracted and tempted me only because it was far away. Had I realised it, I should simply have dreamed another dream.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “When you have just lost a beloved there is a wretched moment, after the brutal shock, when you begin to understand that all is over, and blank despair surrounds you and looms like a giant.”

24. “When you have just lost a beloved there is a wretched moment, after the brutal shock, when you begin to understand that all is over, and blank despair surrounds you and looms like a giant.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “I had seen the struggle to love and make one’s self understood, the refusal of two persons in conversation to give themselves to each other, the coming together of two lovers, the lovers with an infectious smile, who are lovers in name only, who bury themselves in kisses, who press wound to wound to cure themselves, between whom there is really no attachment, and who, in spite of their ecstasy deriving light from shadow, are strangers as much as the sun and the moon are strangers.”

25. “I had seen the struggle to love and make one’s self understood, the refusal of two persons in conversation to give themselves to each other, the coming together of two lovers, the lovers with an infectious smile, who are lovers in name only, who bury themselves in kisses, who press wound to wound to cure themselves, between whom there is really no attachment, and who, in spite of their ecstasy deriving light from shadow, are strangers as much as the sun and the moon are strangers.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “Two armies fighting each other are like one big army that commits suicide.”

26. “Two armies fighting each other are like one big army that commits suicide.”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “All these men with their corpse-like faces, in front of us and behind, driven to exhaustion, emptied of words and will... All these men laden with earth, who, you could say, are carrying their own graves...”

27. “All these men with their corpse-like faces, in front of us and behind, driven to exhaustion, emptied of words and will... All these men laden with earth, who, you could say, are carrying their own graves...”

— Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Quote: “Shame on military glory, shame on armies, shame on the soldier’s profession, which changes men, some into stupid victims, others into base executioners. Yes shame, that’s true – but it’s too true, it’s true in eternity, but not yet for us.”

28. “Shame on military glory, shame on armies, shame on the soldier’s profession, which changes men, some into stupid victims, others into base executioners. Yes shame, that’s true – but it’s too true, it’s true in eternity, but not yet for us.”

— Henri Barbusse

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