Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
Emile Zola
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Whole
Loving
Believe
Philosophy
Life
Vision
Force
Applying
Living
Believing
History
Basis
Art
Bases
Better
Intellect
More quotes by Emile Zola
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
Emile Zola
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
Emile Zola
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
Emile Zola
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
Emile Zola
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
The vague torment of ... ambition.
Emile Zola
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
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
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
Emile Zola
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
Emile Zola
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
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
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
Emile Zola
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
Emile Zola
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
Emile Zola
In love as in speculation there is much filth in love also, people think only of their own gratification yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
Emile Zola
Everything is only a dream.
Emile Zola
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
Emile Zola
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
Emile Zola
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Emile Zola
