Quotes by South African Authors - Page 23

For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.
Christiaan Barnard
Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The biggest form of witchcraft is denying someone information.
Unarine Ramaru
Heraclitus once said "we cannot exist without strife" but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.
Anike Kirsten
Not only may you not enter the state without certification: you are, in the eyes of the state, not dead until you are certified dead; and you can be certified dead only by an officer who himself (herself) holds state certification. The state pursues the certification of death with extraordinary thoroughness—witness the dispatch of a host of forensic scientists and bureaucrats to scrutinize and photograph and prod and poke the mountain of human corpses left behind by the great tsunami of December 2004 in order to establish their individual identities. No expense is spared to ensure that the census of subjects shall be complete and accurate.Whether the citizen lives or dies is not a concern of the state. What matters to the state and its records is whether the citizen is alive or dead.
J.M. Coetzee
A leader is not authenticated by title or position, but by character and influence, most important by leading among the pack and not in front.
Unarine Ramaru
It is rude to tweet while having sex. However, it is not rude to have sex while tweeting.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A counterfeit can never be a substitute for the real thing
Sipho Bayeto
Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
isn't lying supposed to be a 'sin'? Or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look bad?
Christina Engela
Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To remain far-sighted, you need to surround yourselfwith far-sighted visionaries. You need to surroundyourself with people who think like you. You needto surround yourself with people who speak the same language as you. You need to surround yourselfwith people who fight and refuse to give up on theirdestiny. You need to surround yourself with people whose testimonies give you reasons to press on.
D.S Mashego
If the future truly lies in the dreams of our children, then should those dreams not be filled with light.
Deon Potgieter
A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Maybe I don't know everything that happened to you over the years, but every time you open your mouth and something self-deprecating falls out, it's like I'm hearing someone else's voice coming out of you.(...)Every time you say something like that, something that puts you down, you're letting someone else's opinion take control of you.
V.L. Dreyer
Every time you shift a blame on what you could have taken responsibility for, you deny yourself an opportunity to learn and grow.
Gugu Mona
You will not find joy out of fear, therefore eliminate every component of fear in your life if joy is what you need.
Gift Gugu Mona
Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.
Tarryn Fisher
To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Is there any good left in the world/ And if there is, can you still find it in the places that matter? Why is it that the only places i see it now, is in the graves of the victims, and the tears of those who mourn them?
Christina Engela
Never invest in any kind of relationship with anyone who is not willing to work on themselves just a little every day. A person who takes no interest in any form of self-improvement, personal development or spiritual growth will also not be inclined to make much of an effort building a truly meaningful connection with you. A relationship with only one partner willing to do the work ceases to be a relationship. And as anyone who has been there will tell you - it's pointless to try and dance the tango solo.
Anthon St. Maarten
You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.
Lauren Beukes
Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.
Tony Dovale
The ‘wounded men’ may, I argue, represent a form of shamanistic suffering, ‘death’ and initiation that was closely associated with somatic hallucinati
James David Lewis-Williams
My heart is an empty refrigerator.
J.T. Lawrence
*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In a sudden and soundless eruption, as if he has fallen into a waking dream, a stream of images pours down, images of women he has known on two continents, some from so far away in time that he barely recognizes them. Like leaves blown on the wind, pell-mell, they pass before him. A fair field full of folk: hundreds of lives all tangled with his. He holds his breath, willing the vision to continue.What has happened to them, all those women, all those lives? Are there moments when they too, or some of them, are plunged without warning into the ocean of memory? The German girl: is it possible that at this very instant she is remembering the man who picked her up on the roadside in Africa and spent the night with her? Enriched: that was the word the newspapers picked on to jeer at. A stupid word to let slip, under the circumstances, yet now, at this moment, he would stand by it. By Melanie, by the girl in Touws River; by Rosalind, Bev Shaw, Soraya: by each of them he was enriched, and by the others too, even the least of them, even the failures. Like a flower blooming in his breast, his heart floods with thankfulness.
J.M. Coetzee
Like the shadow of deathThe residue of heartbreakAlways lingers in the backgroundWith its darkness threatening to consume you
Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Keep smiling for your day will become a smile.
Gerhard Ebersohn
The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never underestimate the value of advice from anyone, whether they are younger or older than you. Wisdom is not categorised under age
Unarine Ramaru
Discovering your God-given purpose does not necessarily put you in a place of omniscience.
D.S Mashego
To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
God has been FAITHFUL to me, He still is and always will be; that's why I have FAITH in Him.
Gift Gugu Mona
Don't make noise, rather give people good reasons to make noise about you.
Unarine Ramaru
He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
now,never mindthe boy who came out of that reading rooma new man,safe in the hope of what was to comein the summers of his life.
Thabo Jijana
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A genius is a grownup that remained a kid.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.
Christina Engela
It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.
Danielle Esplin
When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being a solution and not a problem proves progression.
Unarine Ramaru
Judge character by behavior.
Lizelle DuPlessis
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice it would start me up to a moment's life again.
Olive Schreiner
The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I am happy to see you, Maso
Damon Galgut
Rethink Your Success Mindset: Gratitude is the attitude, fuel and catalyst that transforms life's challenges into wisdom.
Tony Dovale
To masturbate is to imagine: physically.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the pioneers of time travel, it’s one of the foundation stones of the Theory behind it. It’s something of a paradox – a mind-boggling annotation in the ever-puzzling and ever growing Anals of History. (Some readers may still be thinking that should be ‘Annals’ – however, the author of this work cannot be blamed for what you may think.)
Christina Engela
A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana