Quote

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Emile Zola

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile Zola
Age: 62 †
Born: 1840
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: January 1
Art Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
Playwright
Poet
Political Journalist
Short Story Writer
Theatre Critic
Paris
France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
Greater
Pet
Fear
Ridiculous
Men
Connected
Animals
Importance
Fate
Humanity
Indissolubly
Animal
Appearing

More quotes by Emile Zola

Image
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
Image
She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
Emile Zola
Image
If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
Emile Zola
Image
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
Emile Zola
Image
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Emile Zola
Image
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Emile Zola
Image
It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
Emile Zola
Image
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
Emile Zola
Image
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
Emile Zola
Image
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
Emile Zola
Image
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that she wanted to live!
Emile Zola
Image
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
Emile Zola
Image
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
Emile Zola
Image
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Emile Zola
Image
And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' - 'Joy of Life
Emile Zola
Image
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
Emile Zola
Image
The vague torment of ... ambition.
Emile Zola
Image
When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
Emile Zola
Image
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
Emile Zola
Image
They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
Emile Zola