Montherlant, Henry de

I haven’t forgotten about Sully-Prudhomme (you’ll be relieved to hear) but I love this powerful quotation from Montherlant, without actually agreeing with the sentiment he expresses:

‘Ce sont les mots  qu’ils non pas dits qui font les morts si lourds dans leur cercueil’: ‘It is the unspoken words that weigh the dead down so heavily in their coffins’.