Quotes by Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau

As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?

Beautiful

Men

Stupid

Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

Children

Intellectual

Teacher

Come now, don’t make such a funeral face. It isn’t dying that’s sad; it’s living when you’re not happy.

Dying

Faces

Funeral

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Desire

Giving

Horror

Great ladies … are like the best sauces — it is better not to know how they are made.

Made

Sauce

Women

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

And Love

Intensity

Murder

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

Flower

Scent

Shapes

Nothing comes at all — never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.

Going Away

Life

Should

Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious “right” a revolution was fought.

Names

Running

Sheep

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Doe

People

Solitude

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Anger

Beautiful

Beauty

Bombs

Business

Children

Danger

Depression

Desire

Doe

Dying

Elements

Eye

Faces

Facts

Fashion

Flower

Funeral

Giving

Going Away

Horror

Humanity

Inexplicable

Intellectual

Intensity

Joy

Life

Like Love

Lying

Made

Men

Mental Illness

Murder

Names

Passion

People

Poverty

Real

Rich

Running

Sauce

Scent

Shapes

Sheep

Should

Smell

Solitude

Song

Stupid

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Quotes by Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau

Come now, don’t make such a funeral face. It isn’t dying that’s sad; it’s living when you’re not happy.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Great ladies … are like the best sauces — it is better not to know how they are made.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

Nothing comes at all — never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

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