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Life Quotes by Athol Fugard
- Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.
- For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very…
- All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was…
- To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of…
- From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a…
- In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of…
- There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle