Marechera Dambudzo Quotes & Sayings

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh ... And the same thing is happening to my generation. — Dambudzo Marechera

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the night comes, streets welcome the lonely souls because they alone can fully understand the lonely streets! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I must do what my conscience bids. I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine. — Elizabeth Gaskell

And that's the work of your generation. As long as more walls still stand ... We'll need more of you, young people, who imagine the world as it should be; who knock down walls; who knock down barriers; who imagine something different and have the courage to make it happen. The courage to bring communities together, to make even the small impossibilities a shining example of what is possible. — Barack Obama

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion. — Richard Dawkins

My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor possessiveness. — Diana Athill

When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of trombones, scream — Dambudzo Marechera

Would you get your butt in here? Shit, you are slow as a fat kid on crutches, Zoey. — P.C. Cast

Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. — Kenneth Grahame

You know, there was a time when men told women on dates that they were beautiful. You're telling me I'm not ugly, and that's supposed to make me feel better? — Chance Carter

What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime. — Frederick Lenz

I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day. — Etgar Keret

I used to like wolves; they always arrived so
Punctually in sheep's clothing at the mortuary
To be prepared for burial by my father who
Showered his wrath on my mother with blows
From his fists at night; this warrior, this Lord — Abigail George

I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films. — Ming-Na Wen

Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people — Sunday Adelaja

If you are a writer for a specific nation or a specific race, then fuck you. — Dambudzo Marechera

Satiated with the great purposelessness of it, we gently belched nerve gases into the next generation — Dambudzo Marechera