Quotes by Cameroonian Authors - Page 2

There is no playing safe with me any longer. I only take huge risks. I know this means I can lose big time, but so long as there is a chance that I will win big time, I will take it
Sahndra Fon Dufe
Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see?
Anja Owona Okoa
…the purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
I’ll be as loving as you will be, as stubborn as I know you are, as passionate as I’m thankful you are and as supportive and understanding as I’ve known you to be. You are my best friend and I love you
Danielle-Claude Ngontang Mba
Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
A man has a hard time feeling fulfilled when he lives a life that does not serve a purpose that is more than himself.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
You don't wish me well when you tell me the sky is my limit. You bind me within its realm. I prefer to hear that I am my limit, not the sky, because beyond our sky lays the moon, the sun, the milky way, other universes and the possibilities are limitless.
Sahndra Fon Dufe
one bothers oneself for nothing.
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they weave.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
It's the fear that kills us, Leah," Jende said. "Sometimes it happens and it's not even as bad as the fear. That is what I have learned in this life. It is the fear.
Imbolo Mbue
The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
I live for my death. While it is important how you perceive me now, It is more imperative how generations to come would perceive me
Sahndra Fon Dufe
He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
A land is precious, but ours is to be revered.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The good shall prevail in the end, the truth shall be the rule and the Cameroonian soul shall be free,” Hans said in an emotion-choked voice, “However, we should never lose our heads; we should always be prepared to forgive all the repentant souls.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines
Sahndra Fon Dufe
No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people’s destiny is charted...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
In your spare time, google the ingredients in all the foods you are eating. If you care about yourself, you may change your menu
Sahndra Fon Dufe
A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s reserve for development, for the day that this country shall be free. Your late father was an intelligent man. He was even more than that. He was a sage. He once said to me that the intelligent Bamilekés are those who have sought a better future for themselves and for their families in British Cameroons. He was right. They have not been brainwashed as much as their francophone brothers have. If he were alive today, I am sure he would have judged that the intelligent Cameroonians are those who have sought refuge out of Cameroon.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
So, you see; you have the soul of a missionary, the heart of a revolutionary and the mind of a reformer. But what are you to yourself and the family and friends who will always be there for you?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Son, it is bad for a man to be condemned by his children, more so by the sons he cherishes.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don’t know or haven’t made the effort to understand.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows. The job of the singer, actor or artists ,in general, is to make us comfortable with our feelings or emotions―be it pain, hurt, anger, hatred, sadness, pleasure, love, cheerfulness or joy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Politicians like the effect of alcohol because it makes them feel important.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
…the truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The people are like an audience watching a drama. They have characters whose sides they chose even before the start of the show, but they know little or nothing about the people behind the stage―the manipulators.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest
Sahndra Fon Dufe
…reality is the make-believe of the majority that can only thrive in conformity.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
… there is no permanence or guarantee in this life.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The writer is the cursed artist of the soul. The expression of his art is a reflection of his quest to understand man by unraveling the mysteries that have been haunting humankind from time immemorial. In the end of his journey to understand man, the writer becomes more human even though his soul ends up finding less peace.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...
Janvier Chando
Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
…our recollections bring out our joyful smiles, but hardly make us chortle or guffaw; our recollections often leave imprints on our faces that show our regrets, but they hardly produce sounds that echo the depth of those regrets.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
At what point is normal natural?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando