Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbussewas a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 May 1873
CountryFrance
hell inferno frenzy
There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.
heartbreaking mankind slowness
At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.
simple people lines
Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!
laughter ideas solitude
We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
suicide war army
Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
men divinity inward
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.
people machines forgetfulness
People are machines of forgetfulness
eye men order
There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No - I recover myself - they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying “I wish” must say “I will.” And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.
suicide army two
Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
suicide poison hours
It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.
believe solitude radiance
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.
want
It is not a woman I want - it is all women.
falling-in-love reality world
All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.
heart talking names
How I waited for you! How I longed for you! he stammered. "I thought of you all the time. I saw you all the time. Your smile was everywhere." He lowered his voice and added, "Sometimes when people were talking commonplaces and your name happened to be mentioned, It would go through my heart like an electric current.