Rolland Quotes & Sayings

How often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them. — Romain Rolland

While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look. — Stephane Rolland

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today. — Romain Rolland

The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe. — Romain Rolland

Until you've got your mouth full of cocaine, you don't know what kissing is. One kiss goes on from phase to phase like one of those novels by Balzac and Zola and Romain Rolland and D. H. Lawrence and those chaps. And you never get tire. You're on fourth speed all the time, and the engine purrs like a kitten, a big white kitten with the stars in its whiskers. — Aleister Crowley

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo. — Stephane Rolland

Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses, I have been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called "great books." That, for instance, Mann's asinine "Death in Venice," or Pasternak's melodramatic, vilely written "Dr. Zhivago," or Faulkner's corn-cobby chronicles can be considered "masterpieces" or at least what journalists term "great books," is to me the sort of absurd delusion as when a hypnotized person makes love to a chair. My greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose are, in this order: Joyce's "Ulysses"; Kafka's "Transformation"; Bely's "St. Petersburg," and the first half of Proust's fairy tale, "In Search of Lost Time. — Vladimir Nabokov

There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people. — Romain Rolland

Let us seek truth everywhere;
let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
that will form the new ground. — Romain Rolland

Passion is like genius: a miracle. — Romain Rolland

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him. — Romain Rolland

I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to one side, and with the ardour and earnestness of my eighteen years I fell in love with one author after another: Flaubert, Gogol, Melville, and even Romain Rolland. — Dai Sijie

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. — Romain Rolland

One makes mistakes; that is life.
But it is never a mistake to have loved. — Romain Rolland

The friend who understands you, creates you. — Romain Rolland

The more we create, the more we love and lose those whom we love, the more we escape from death. With every new work we round and finish, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us. When all is told, Rome is not in Rome; the best of a man lies outside himself. — Romain Rolland

Most men are essentially dead by thirty. — Romain Rolland

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. — Romain Rolland

The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices. — Stephane Rolland

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day. — Romain Rolland

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art. — Romain Rolland

I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra. — Stephane Rolland

His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero! — Romain Rolland

I distrust official charity.All charity should be done by stealth. — Romain Rolland

I love to sit, to watch people; even in New York, I don't feel as free as in London. — Stephane Rolland

Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality. — Rolland Hein

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India! — Romaine Rolland

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable. — Romain Rolland

A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes. — Michel Rolland

There are some dead who are more alive than the living. — Romain Rolland

She tipped her head back and started laughing, and I started picturing people twerking - everyone in the limo. Quiet Luxen Dude. Rolland. Sadi. All of them bent over, butts in the air, looking like damn fools. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north. — Romain Rolland

stones are hard everywhere. — Romain Rolland

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another. — Romain Rolland

To understand everything is to hate nothing. — Romain Rolland

Jesus doesn't rob you of being YOU. You don't somehow become less than yourself because Jesus' presence is larger in you. It's just the opposite; the more you surrender to Him, the more you become who the Father always intended you to be. — Rolland Baker

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world. — Romain Rolland

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand. — Romain Rolland

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. — Romain Rolland

A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose. — Romain Rolland

There are no great enologists. Only good grapes — Michel Rolland

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries. — Romain Rolland

Just as Rolland and I know that together with our team, God has given us the nation of Mozambique, our dear friends Brian and Pamela Jourden know that the Lord has a great revival to birth in Zimbabwe and across Africa. Many prophetic words have been released over their lives, and financial miracles grow their ministry. When they started Generation Won/Iris Zimbabwe in 2008, Zimbabwe had gone from being one of the most prosperous nations in Africa, called the "breadbasket of Africa," to being the poorest nation in the world. God spoke to them that Zimbabwe, which means house of stones, was like the stone the builders rejected, Jesus, but it would become a cornerstone nation, just as Jesus is the chief cornerstone, and a house of prayer for all nations. They have over twenty churches among three tribes, and they have seen HIV/AIDS and cancer miraculously healed as they preach the gospel. God is also opening doors with national leaders. — Heidi Baker

As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all. — Romain Rolland

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland

I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude. — Stephane Rolland

A hero is a man who does what he can. — Romain Rolland

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her! — Romain Rolland

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. — Romain Rolland

Written words were so much harsher than spoken. — A. Lynden Rolland

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it. — Romain Rolland

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies. — Romain Rolland

It is not peace that I seek, but life. — Romain Rolland

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause. — Romain Rolland

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. — Romain Rolland

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. — Romain Rolland

A hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it. — Romain Rolland

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs. — Romain Rolland

You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. — Romain Rolland

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities — Romain Rolland

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. — Romain Rolland

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others. — Romain Rolland

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest. — Romain Rolland

The public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature ... A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power! — Romain Rolland

As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White. — Stephane Rolland

Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved. — Romain Rolland

answers. I took another swig of water, screwed the cap back on and thought about the next place I must look for Doc. I did not like it — Rolland Love

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre ... A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle. — Romain Rolland

Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the surface of the waters. Round about them and behind in the twilight of the dawn stretches the great untroubled sheet of water; then new islands, touched to gold by the sun. — Romain Rolland

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. — Romain Rolland

A limited number of types,good and bad serve for all ages. — Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician. — Romain Rolland

There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating. — Romain Rolland

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature ... whence we formerly took our flight. — Romain Rolland

Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief. — Romain Rolland

If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay. — Romain Rolland

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action. — Romain Rolland

It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste. — Stephane Rolland

I love a woman with a relaxed attitude. — Stephane Rolland