Louis de Bernieres Quotes

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person’s death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I’ve been lobbying MPs, and I’m not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.