Gustave Flaubert - God Quotes

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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

Gustave Flaubert

The writer in his work must be like God in his creation—invisible and all-powerful: he must be everywhere felt, but never seen.

Gustave Flaubert

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Gustave Flaubert

The author in his work should be like God in the universe: everywhere present and nowhere visible.

Gustave Flaubert

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter

Gustave Flaubert

My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.

Gustave Flaubert