Quotes by South African Authors - Page 26

That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.
Damon Galgut
I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.
Nelson Mandela
Grace and chocolate cake can cover a world of awkwardness.
Lisa-Jo Baker
What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Poverty deprives humanity of the basic necessities to live a meaningful life.
Gift Gugu Mona
I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.
Unarine Ramaru
Every person deserves a chance to show what they can best offer world.
Gugu Mona
Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.
Unarine Ramaru
Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I just don't understand why those who fail to listen to others possess a habitual desire to be listened to.
Gugu Mona
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
Nadine Gordimer
School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent
Nelson Mandela
You find your greatest joy the moment when you discover your purpose in life.
Gift Gugu Mona
I used to think that size does not count, until I realized that most people either find other people’s faeces more disgusting than a bird’s droppings, or they do not find the latter disgusting at all.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.
Andrew Murray
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is wise to admit one's wrongs because it creates room for correction.
Gift Gugu Mona
You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business.
Christina Engela
Some choices will either make you perish or prosper, choose properly.
Gift Gugu Mona
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
Nelson Mandela
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The first two-dimensional images were thus not two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional things in the material world, as researchers have always assumed. Rather, they were ‘fixed’ mental images.
James David Lewis-Williams
The house was safe again, although a little bit more untidy, but at least Vluffy didn’t have to worry about big nasty two headed roaches chasing him down the hall anymore.
Christina Engela
Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?
Damon Galgut
We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sometimes I hate him. When he does the dishes, he shakes off each one before setting it in the drying rack. Water flies everywhere. A couple of drops always hit me in the face. I have to leave the room to avoid smashing a plate against his head.
Tarryn Fisher
A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable.
Gugu Mona
Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.
Lauren Beukes
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.
J.M. Coetzee
Some couples are married because they fell in love. Some are married because the woman fell pregnant.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.
Nadine Gordimer
This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.
Desmond Tutu
A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If I open my mouthMy word would be of love and hopeTenderness completing me from inside out
Chimnese Davids
Only monsters could slay monsters.
Imraan Coovadia
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.”“I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
J.M. Coetzee
Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.
Gugu Mona
You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Give someone you wronged a chance to express their true feelings and learn about yourself and your shortcomings.
Unarine Ramaru
When faced with trials, pray so that you cannot be the trial yourself.
Gift Gugu Mona
Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We can discover much about God by looking at nature. Take the Trinity for example. The Trinity is sort of like an apple. You've got the seeds, the flesh, and the skin. Three different things. Still, together they form one thing, an apple. And under no circumstances will one apple be three things, but the seeds, skin, and flesh will always be three things.
Alan de Jager
Like rain drops dripping on the floor like a thousand drumists beating those drums repeatedly,My blood runs through my veins ninety nine point nine metres per second when i think of you.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
The biggest opportunity one can get in life, it is a chance to make friends!
Unarine Ramaru
The mindset you have, determines the next step you take.
Unarine Ramaru
The heart breaks, but carries on. It can shoulder the most impossible burdens.
Marc Secchia
Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Immense self-made wealth is the evidence of a grandly rich mind
Julian Pencilliah
Some day this war is going to end...
Richard Stanley
So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.
Alan de Jager
The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.
Leila Summers
There was something about the story she told us...that didn't seem right to him. He didn't buy the idea they'd been lovers. He reckoned it was something else. It's the sort of thing he used to pick up on, when I worked with him. You know as well as I do, sir, in a case like this you collect all sorts of facts, but only a few really matter, and Mr Madden had a gift for spotting them. Not that he always knew why: often it was just something he felt - a sort of instinct, I suppose - though he would have said it was simply a matter of paying attention. That's what he used to tell me.
Rennie Airth
We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are the proud emblems of a truly phenomenal life. The fearful, cautious, cynical and self-repressed do not live at all. And that is simply no way to be in this world.
Anthon St. Maarten