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Quotes by Rwandan Authors

"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."
"Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war."
"My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds."
"Death is the great incorruptible corruptor."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Death is the great incorruptible corruptor."
"A comedian is better than a politician, at least there is no doubt."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"A comedian is better than a politician, at least there is no doubt."
"This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have."
"You are not a real thinker if your thoughts haven't landed you in trouble yet."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You are not a real thinker if your thoughts haven't landed you in trouble yet."
"God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal."
"I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life."
"Nature cannot be bribed, when the necessary conditions are not met, it does not happen."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Nature cannot be bribed, when the necessary conditions are not met, it does not happen."
"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
"If you want to be extremely important in people's lives, give them extremely good services they can't find anywhere else."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"If you want to be extremely important in people's lives, give them extremely good services they can't find anywhere else."
"The highest law in nature is love yourself, and seek your own interests before anything else."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"The highest law in nature is love yourself, and seek your own interests before anything else."
"A writer is never alone, he is always in conversation with himself."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"A writer is never alone, he is always in conversation with himself."
"The body is not a reliable friend."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"The body is not a reliable friend."
"Politics preys on people's naivety."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Politics preys on people's naivety."
"When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish."
"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
"Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide."
"You are received the way you present yourself."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You are received the way you present yourself."
"Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope."
"Religion is pure hypnosis."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Religion is pure hypnosis."
"You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something."
"Apologetics is reason flying to the rescue of faith."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Apologetics is reason flying to the rescue of faith."
"You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison."
"She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?"
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?"
"Don't think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Don't think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone."
"It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue."
"Powerless=lifeless."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Powerless=lifeless."
"You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster."
"It's not that the hero is blind to the dangers of the journey, it's those dangers that raise the hero in him."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"It's not that the hero is blind to the dangers of the journey, it's those dangers that raise the hero in him."
"Life is existence with meaning."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Life is existence with meaning."
"Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt."
"Death is the great equalizer."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Death is the great equalizer."
"Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it."
"We don't do what we want to, we do what we are allowed to."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"We don't do what we want to, we do what we are allowed to."
"One man encompasses all of humanity. Harming one man is harming humanity."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"One man encompasses all of humanity. Harming one man is harming humanity."
"Woman must be financially independent to be free in love."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Woman must be financially independent to be free in love."
"Design and produce yourself according to your dreams."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Design and produce yourself according to your dreams."
"Love starts having troubles when the brains encroaches on its territory."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Love starts having troubles when the brains encroaches on its territory."
"At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker."
"Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem."
"Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot."
"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
"You have to sacrifice life to get life."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You have to sacrifice life to get life."
"They succeed not because they are perfect but because they do not let their imperfections stand in their way to success."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"They succeed not because they are perfect but because they do not let their imperfections stand in their way to success."
"After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity."
"You can truly live if you can see yourself centuries after you have died. Just imagine it. What will people remember about you, how will your grave look like? How will your children live, etc."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You can truly live if you can see yourself centuries after you have died. Just imagine it. What will people remember about you, how will your grave look like? How will your children live, etc."
"You cannot write if you are not on fire."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"You cannot write if you are not on fire."
"Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story."
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story."
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