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

- Henri Barbusse

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

- Henri Barbusse

I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the c…

- Henri Barbusse

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

- Henri Barbusse

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 li…

- Henri Barbusse

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

- Henri Barbusse

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

- Henri Barbusse

I see too deep and too much.

- Henri Barbusse

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.

- Henri Barbusse