Quotes by Mirbeau, Octave

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in mur >>

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. >>

Quotations about Torture

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the torture >>

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in >>

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. >>

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

Mirbeau, Octave