Octave Mirbeau Quotes
Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
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.
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.
While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.