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

• Universe
• Like
• Justice
• Suffering
• Lies
• Garden
• Greed
• Immense
• Appears

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• 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

• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Like
  • Painting

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
  • Taken

• If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Like
  • Surprise
  • Behave

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Universe

• The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Experience
  • Like
  • Summer

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Done
  • City
  • Garden

• Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Party
  • Justice
  • Loyalty

• People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Growing
  • Like
  • Glamour

• I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Like
  • Makeup
  • Where

• What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Small
  • Lies
  • Leading

• The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • God
  • Important

• The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Comedy

• Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Fate

• 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
  • Universe
  • Like
  • Justice