Marah Roesli Quotes & Sayings

We read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the actual world seems to be a more treacherous place. — Umberto Eco

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche. — Casey Wilson

The big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition. — Barack Obama

A revolution is not a dinner party, nor a literary composition, nor painting nor embroidering. It cannot be done so delicately, so leisurely, so gentlemanly and gently, kindly, politely and modestly. Revolution is insurrection, the violent action of one class overthrowing the power of another. An agrarian revolution is a revolution by the peasantry to overthrow the power of the feudal landlord class. If the peasants do not apply great force, the power of the landlords, built up over thousands of years, can never be uprooted. — Mao Zedong

The misery of sleep is beyond the understanding of men. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And you, what did you do with your mother's talents
when pain made her suffer the ground
you dragged yourself across toward Calvary.
Every day she asks:
Are you dead?
And I say: arise.
You haven't finished all your talents yet:
all of us are rotten through
and the only thing we've doubled is our doubt. — Rosa Alice Branco

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Our current societal construct demonstrates we are uncaring and largely self-centered beings driven only by our own needs — Bryant McGill