Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Im tired of love Im still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.