Octave Mirbeau Quotes

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.

Octave Mirbeau

Quotes to Explore

I don't really like to explain my songs.

Yiannis Chryssomallis
- Like
- Songs
- Explain
I like to prove people wrong.

Zach LaVine
- People
- Like
- Wrong
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

Octavio Paz
- Time
- Universe
- Couple
I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

Patrick Wilson
- School
- Think
- Hand
When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.

H. R. Giger
- Like
- Boy
- Young
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

Daniel Espinosa
- Up
- Different
- Like