All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.

Émile Zola · The source reads: “I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.” · My Hates (1866)

J'accuse.

Émile Zola · Title of open letter to the president of the French Republic, L'Aurore (January 13, 1898)

Every morning, when you get up, swallow, on an empty stomach, a live toad.

Émile Zola · The source reads: “Every morning, when you get up, swallow, on an empty stomach, a live toad. Tous les matins, en vous levant, à jeun, avalez-moi un bon crapaud vivant.” · Advice to a young writer, Le Crapaud (1896)

Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it.

Émile Zola · Article in Le Figaro (November 25, 1897)

More Life Quotes

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

Albert Einstein · From a tribute to Paul Langevin, 1947.

Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · The source reads: “Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days must be dark and dreary.” · From the poem "The Rainy Day"; the next line is "some days must be dark and dreary."

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.

Albert Einstein · The opening of What I Believe, 1930.

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“All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.”

“J'accuse.”

“Every morning, when you get up, swallow, on an empty stomach, a live toad.”

“Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it.”

“Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?”

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.”