Top 100 Zola Quotes

#1. From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #4290
#2. When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #16098
#3. 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

Zola Quotes #27704
#4. When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you're African it's different and I don't think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn't matter where you move, you will always be a South African,

Zola Budd

Zola Quotes #29503
#5. The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #30029
#6. I am an artist ... I am here to live out loud.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #37193
#7. I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

Zola Budd

Zola Quotes #51706
#8. With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour it, as though ravenous with an abominable hunger to butcher them. But this one, could he then love her, and not kill her?

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #54316
#9. The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #76792
#10. I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

Zola Budd

Zola Quotes #80023
#11. She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #80921
#12. The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #92873
#13. 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

Zola Quotes #98962
#14. Like certain devotees, who think they can fool God and wrest a pardon by paying lip-service to prayer and adopting the humble attitude of the penitent, Therese humiliated herself, beat her chest, found words of repentance, without having anything in the bottom of her heart except fear and cowardice.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #100928
#15. The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #102217
#16. The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #103029
#17. Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #103834
#18. If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #105093
#19. I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move,

Zola Budd

Zola Quotes #105872
#20. 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

Zola Quotes #114525
#21. Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #120026
#22. It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #135643
#23. He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms of debauchery. Vice with him was not an abyss, as with certain old men, but a natural, external growth.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #165100
#24. Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #172655
#25. 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

Zola Quotes #178485
#26. These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #199872
#27. After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #203682
#28. The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #206907
#29. He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed.

Susan Vreeland

Zola Quotes #228724
#30. She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #259593
#31. I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #263725
#32. There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.

Zola Budd

Zola Quotes #275402
#33. With his mouth open, he gave off that alcoholic smell that you get from an old brandy cask when you take out the bung.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #275405
#34. There can only be one Queen Bey.

Zola Jesus

Zola Quotes #305450
#35. The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

Zola Jesus

Zola Quotes #306506
#36. Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #313148
#37. Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

Zola Budd

Zola Quotes #313720
#38. I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.

Zola Jesus

Zola Quotes #315116
#39. She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #332612
#40. I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

Zola Jesus

Zola Quotes #352380
#41. For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

Charles Bernheimer

Zola Quotes #369669
#42. The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #376039
#43. The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #381935
#44. The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

Zola Jesus

Zola Quotes #386546
#45. It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #403221
#46. Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #415982
#47. He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #424581
#48. On a pitch black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running straight as a die across the bare plain between fields of beet.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #436862
#49. She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #443455
#50. Nothing could be more heart rending than this mute and motionless dispair

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #454683
#51. For a few moments, raising his arms desperately, the Reverend Mouret implored Heaven. His shoulder-blades cracked, with such fantastic force did he pray. But soon enough his arms fell to his sides, his hopes abashed. From heaven came one of those silences utterly void of hope known to the devout.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #455676
#52. Paris flared
Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

Emile Zola

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#53. Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

Gianfranco Zola

Zola Quotes #467057
#54. They have so smothered me in their middle-class refinement that I don't know how there can be any blood left in my veins. I lowered my eyes, put on a dismal, silly expression, just like them; I was just as dead-and-alive as they were.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #481485
#55. I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Emile Zola

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#56. I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet.

Phil Daniels

Zola Quotes #490183
#57. When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #494601
#58. A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #508660
#59. The couple fell one atop of the other, struck down, finding consolation, at last, in death.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #513273
#60. Respectable people... What bastards!

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #526378
#61. She hasn't run faster than herself before

Zola Budd

Zola Quotes #527057
#62. True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

Zola Jesus

Zola Quotes #537994
#63. Lovers are made by a kiss.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #545557
#64. Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #555124
#65. Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #556209
#66. As he talked a good deal, had seen active service, and was naturally regarded as a man of energy and spirit, he was much sought after and listened to by simpletons.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #565759
#67. Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is fortunate for humanity that all mothers have this pathetic faith, without it mankind would not have the ever-renascent strength to go on living.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #580516
#68. ...it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing...

Emile Zola

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#69. Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #600809
#70. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #606643
#71. As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with Roberto Di Matteo.

Gianfranco Zola

Zola Quotes #620128
#72. The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #633203
#73. I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

Zola Jesus

Zola Quotes #652284
#74. 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

Zola Quotes #670104
#75. People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

Zola Jesus

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#76. Everything is only a dream.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #672402
#77. When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #679047
#78. I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

Zola Budd

Zola Quotes #685300
#79. But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means that you are incapable of believing. There is no need for the Almighty to prove His existence.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #691659
#80. She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #711006
#81. Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human ... the intrinsic, I guess.

Zola Jesus

Zola Quotes #723884
#82. The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

Emile Zola

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#83. Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to the last, weary of all the petty things in life, done to death by the heartless conduct of the only human beings that he had ever loved.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #752334
#84. I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

Zola Jesus

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#85. When there is no hope in the future, the present appears atrociously bitter.

Emile Zola

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#86. 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

Zola Quotes #790106
#87. Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

Emile Zola

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#88. One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #825105
#89. Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is

Alan Parry

Zola Quotes #832985
#90. Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

Howard Gardner

Zola Quotes #842193
#91. No, the only good in life lay in not being - or, if one had to be, then in being a tree, a stone, or even less than that, the grain of sand that cannot bleed beneath the grinding heel of a passer-by.

Emile Zola

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#92. The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #867963
#93. There's only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #894611
#94. Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

Emile Zola

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#95. As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

Zola Jesus

Zola Quotes #898408
#96. Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

Emile Zola

Zola Quotes #901781
#97. Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out.

Emile Zola

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#98. He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England.

Gianfranco Zola

Zola Quotes #905701
#99. Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

Floyd Skloot

Zola Quotes #907011
#100. O Almighty God, O Divinity, Helpful Power, whoever, whatever Thou mayst be, take pity upon poor mankind and make human suffering cease! All

Emile Zola

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