Quotes by Octave Mirbeau

“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her for she does love...”

“Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murderimmortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhousehumanity.”

“Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of understanding and feeling. To her, the sun did not appear red enough, the nights pale enough, the skies ...”

“I understood that the law of the world was strife; an inexorable, murderous law, which was not content with arming nation against nation but which hurled against one another the children of the sam...”

“I did not know what she suffered from, but I knew that her malady must have been horrible; I knew that from the way she used to embrace me.”

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all founda...”

“The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.”

“But one gets tired of everything, even of abusing a person. Paris abandons its puppets which it raises to the throne as quickly as it does its martyrs whom it hoists on the gibbet; in its perpetual...”

“Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.”

“‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.”